Psalm 51:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁵ Behold, I was shapen 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

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 8:21

And the LORD smelled the sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Job 14:4

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

Psalm 58:3

The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Leviticus 15:18

The woman also with whom a man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

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 through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:--

Ephesians 2:3

among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--