Psalm 51:5 - The Scriptures 2009

⁵ See, I was brought forth in crookedness, And in sin my mother conceived 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.

Psalm 51:5 Cross References

Romans 5:12

For this reason, even as through one man sin did enter into the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned –

Psalm 58:3

The wrong have been estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.

Job 14:4

Who brings the clean out of the unclean? No one!

Ephesians 2:3

among whom also we 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, as also the rest.

John 3:6

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

Genesis 5:3

And Aḏam lived one hundred and thirty years, and brought forth a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Shĕth.

Genesis 8:21

And יהוה smelled a soothing fragrance, and יהוה said in His heart, “Never again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, and never again strike all living creatures, as I have done,

Leviticus 15:18

‘And when a woman lies with a man, and there is an emission of semen, they both shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.