‘Thou hast no other Gods before Me.
O the happiness of him whose transgression [is] forgiven, Whose sin is covered.
O the happiness of a man, To whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit.
When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.
My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, ‘I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,’ And Thou — Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.
For this doth every saintly one pray to Thee, As the time to find. Surely at an overflowing of many waters, Unto him they come not.
Thoroughly wash me from mine iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me,
For my transgressions I do know, And my sin [is] before me continually.
Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging.
The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.
All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.
And he said — ‘That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man;
for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,
thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;
all these evils do come forth from within, and they defile the man.’
for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God —
for the wages of the sin [is] death, and the gift of God [is] life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.
if we may say — ‘we have not sin,’ ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;
if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;
Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,
all unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death.