Psalms 51:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalms 51:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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:
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Psalms 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
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.

Topics

Depravity of Man Desire Guilt Heredity Popular Sins Rebellion Sin

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

The title has reference to a very sad story, that of David’s fall. But, though he fell, he was not utterly cast down, for God graciously upheld him and raised him up. 1. The sin which, in this psalm, he laments, was the folly and wickedness he committed with his neighbour’s wife, a sin not to be spoken of, nor thought of, without detestation. His debauching of Bathsheba was the inlet to all the ot…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5-6. His guilt was aggravated by his essential, native sinfulness, which is as contrary to God’s requisitions of inward purity as are outward sins to those for right conduct.