Psalms 51:1

David pleads for mercy and the blotting out of his sins, appealing not to his merit but to God's steadfast love and abundant compassion. This is the model prayer of repentance.

Cross-references · 31

• Acts 3:19Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
• Isa 44:22I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
• Isa 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
• Ps 51:9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
• Col 2:14having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
• Ps 69:16Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
• 2 Sam 11:2One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
• Eph 1:6–8to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
• Ps 25:6–7Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.
• Ps 4:1For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.
• Ps 106:45And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
• Exod 34:6–7Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
• Lam 3:32Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
• Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
• Eph 2:4–7But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
• Ps 119:124Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes.
• Ps 40:11O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.
• Num 14:18–19‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
• Ps 109:21But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.
• Ps 5:7But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
• Ps 106:7Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
• Ps 69:13But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
• Isa 63:15Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
• Ps 145:9The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
• Dan 9:9To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him
• Isa 63:7I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
• Jer 18:23But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
• Ps 77:9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah
• Neh 4:5Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.
• Dan 9:18Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

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