Psalm 51:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

Cross References

Genesis 5:3

Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:

Genesis 8:21

And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

Job 14:4

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

Psalm 58:3

The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

Leviticus 15:18

And if a man has sex relations with a woman and his seed goes out from him, the two of them will have to be bathed in water and will be unclean till evening.

John 3:6

That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 5:12

For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

Ephesians 2:3

Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.