For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
Parallel translations
- KJV For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
- BSB For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
- NKJV For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me.
- NASB For I know my wrongdoings, And my sin is constantly before me.
- NLT For I recognize my rebellion; it haunts me day and night.
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- Prov 28:13He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
- Isa 59:12For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
- Ps 38:18For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
- Ps 32:5I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
- Luke 15:18–21I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
- Lev 26:40–41“‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,
- Jer 3:25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”
- Job 33:27He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
- Ps 40:12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
- Neh 9:2The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
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