Psalm 51:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in [a state of] iniquity; my mother was sinful who conceived me [and I too am sinful]. [John 3:6; Rom. 5:12; Eph. 2:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

Common English Bible

⁵ Yes, I was born in guilt, in sin, from the moment my mother conceived me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

Psalm 51:5 Cross References

Genesis 5:3

When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

Genesis 8:21

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

Psalm 58:3

The wicked go astray from the womb, they err from their birth, speaking lies.

Leviticus 15:18

If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

John 3:6

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 5:12

Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned—

Ephesians 2:3

Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.