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Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
    according to your steadfast love remember me,
    for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!(A)

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Psalm 51

Prayer for Cleansing and Pardon

To the leader. A Psalm of David, when the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

Have mercy on me, O God,
    according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy,
    blot out my transgressions.(A)

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26 For you write bitter things against me
    and make me reap[a] the iniquities of my youth.(A)

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  1. 13.26 Heb inherit

25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”(A)

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25 I alone am the one
    who blots out your transgressions for my own sake,
    and I will not remember your sins.(A)

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17 Surely it was for my welfare
    that I had great bitterness,
but you have held back[a] my life
    from the pit of destruction,
for you have cast all my sins
    behind your back.(A)

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  1. 38.17 Cn Compare Gk Vg: Heb loved

11 Their bodies, once full of youth,
    will lie down in the dust with them.(A)

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16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them
    after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their hearts,
    and I will write them on their minds,”(A)

17 and he adds,

“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

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to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace(A)

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And now, my child,[a] listen to me,
    and do not depart from the words of my mouth.(A)
Keep your way far from her,
    and do not go near the door of her house,(B)
lest you give your honor to others
    and your years to the merciless,
10 and strangers take their fill of your wealth,
    and your labors go to the house of an alien,
11 and at the end of your life you groan,
    when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline,
    and my heart despised reproof!(C)
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
    or incline my ear to my instructors.
14 Now I am at the point of utter ruin
    in the public assembly.”

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  1. 5.7 Gk Vg: Heb children

12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
    and I will remember their sins[a] no more.”(A)

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  1. 8.12 Other ancient authorities add and their lawless deeds

but God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us(A) even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ[a]—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places[b] in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—

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  1. 2.5 Other ancient authorities read in Christ
  2. 2.6 Gk heavenlies

14 Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”(A)

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One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

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Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord,
    and do not remember iniquity forever.
    Now consider, we are all your people.(A)

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124 Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love,
    and teach me your statutes.(A)

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26 Help me, O Lord my God!
    Save me according to your steadfast love.

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16 For he did not remember to show kindness
    but pursued the poor and needy
    and the brokenhearted to their death.(A)

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14 May the iniquity of his father[a] be remembered before the Lord,
    and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.(A)

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  1. 109.14 Cn: Heb fathers

Do not remember against us the iniquities of our ancestors;
    let your compassion come speedily to meet us,
    for we are brought very low.(A)

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16 Let your face shine upon your servant;
    save me in your steadfast love.(A)

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Turn, O Lord, save my life;
    deliver me for the sake of your steadfast love.

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