Psalms 51:11

David pleads not to be cast from God's presence or to have the Holy Spirit taken from him. He fears losing fellowship with God above all.

Cross-references · 23

• Eph 4:30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
• 2 Kgs 13:23And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
• Isa 63:10–11But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
• Rom 8:9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
• Gen 6:3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
• John 14:26But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
• Ps 71:18Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
• Luke 11:13If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
• 1 Sam 10:10And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.
• 1 Sam 16:14But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
• Judg 16:20And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
• Ps 71:9Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
• 2 Th 1:9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
• Ps 43:2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
• 2 Sam 7:15But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
• 2 Kgs 24:20For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
• Judg 15:14And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
• 2 Kgs 17:18–23Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
• Gen 4:14Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
• Jer 7:15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
• Judg 13:25And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
• 2 Kgs 23:27And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
• Rom 1:4And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

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