“You shall have no other gods before me.
How blessed is the one whose rebellious acts are forgiven,
whose sin is pardoned!
How blessed is the one whose wrongdoing the Lord does not punish,
in whose spirit there is no deceit.
When I refused to confess my sin,
my whole body wasted away,
while I groaned in pain all day long.
For day and night you tormented me;
you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer. (Selah)
Then I confessed my sin;
I no longer covered up my wrongdoing.
I said, “I will confess my rebellious acts to the Lord.”
And then you forgave my sins. (Selah)
For this reason every one of your faithful followers should pray to you
while there is a window of opportunity.
Certainly when the surging water rises,
it will not reach them.
Wash away my wrongdoing!
Cleanse me of my sin!
For I am aware of my rebellious acts;
I am forever conscious of my sin.
Against you – you above all – I have sinned;
I have done what is evil in your sight.
So you are just when you confront me;
you are right when you condemn me.
The sacrifices God desires are a humble spirit –
O God, a humble and repentant heart you will not reject.
All of us had wandered off like sheep;
each of us had strayed off on his own path,
but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him.
He said, “What comes out of a person defiles him.
For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.
All these evils come from within and defile a person.”
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.
Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.
All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.