Ps.51.5

Psalm 51:5

KJV

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba.

Cross References

Ephesians 2:3

KJV

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.

Alive with Christ

Genesis 8:21

KJV GOD

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.

Noah Builds an Altar

2 Samuel 11:27

KJV

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

David Marries Bathsheba

Job 14:4

KJV

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Job Laments the Finality of Death

Job 15:14

KJV

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God

Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much

Psalm 58:3

KJV

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.