Psalms 51:5 · KJV
“Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. {conceive...: Heb. warm me}”
— Psalms 51:5
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done {this} evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, {and} be clear when thou judgest.
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden {part} thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Psalms 51 — Context
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin {is} ever before me.
4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done {this} evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, {and} be clear when thou judgest.
5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. {conceive...: Heb. warm me}
6Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden {part} thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Cross References
Romans 5:12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: {for that: or, in whom}
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean {thing} out of an unclean? not one. {can...: Heb. will give}
Psalms 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. {as soon...: Heb. from the belly}
Job 15:14-16
What {is} man, that he should be clean? and {he which is} born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. {desires: Gr. wills}
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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 a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for 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. {a sweet...: Heb. a savour of rest or, satisfaction} {for the imagination: or, through the imagination}