Psalm 51:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:13

And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.

2 Kings 20:3

O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

1 Chronicles 29:17

And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.

Job 32:8

But truly it is the spirit in man, even the breath of the Ruler of all, which gives them knowledge.

Job 38:36

Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

Psalm 125:4

Do good, O Lord, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in heart.

Psalm 15:2

He who goes on his way uprightly, doing righteousness, and saying what is true in his heart;

Psalm 26:2

Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.

Psalm 32:5

I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. Selah.

Psalm 41:5

My haters say evil against me, When will he be dead, and his name come to an end?

Psalm 5:9

For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

Proverbs 2:21

For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.

Proverbs 2:6

For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

Jeremiah 12:1

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Jeremiah 31:33

But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Jeremiah 32:40

And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

Luke 11:39

And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.

Romans 7:22

In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

James 4:8

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

1 Peter 3:4

But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.