And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
Psalm 32:5 - King James 2000 I acknowledged my sin unto you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord [continually unfolding the past till all is told]–then You [instantly] forgave me the guilt and iniquity of my sin. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! American Standard Version (1901) I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. [Selah Common English Bible So I admitted my sin to you; I didn’t conceal my guilt. “I’ll confess my sins to the LORD, ” is what I said. Then you removed the guilt of my sin. Selah Catholic Public Domain Version He loves mercy and judgment. The earth is full of the mercy of the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord. |
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? you have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
And David’s heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in what I have done: and now, I beseech you, O LORD, take away the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.
And David spoke unto the LORD when he saw the angel that struck the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let your hand, I pray you, be against me, and against my father’s house.
And forgive your people that have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
Then whatsoever prayer or whatsoever supplication shall be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, when each one shall know his own affliction and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the foreign wives.
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:
He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Turn you unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
For his anger endures but for a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part you shall make me to know wisdom.
But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy unto all them that call upon you.
He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whosoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.
This is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness.
And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
How can you say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your favors to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD.
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart is troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.
And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing:
Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, How have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.
And he said unto them, You are they who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Therefore I say unto you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.
And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.
And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray you, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what you have done; hide it not from me.