Psalms 51:1

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

Cross References (31)

  • Acts 3:19 (56)

    Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,

  • Isaiah 44:22 (48)

    I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

  • Isaiah 43:25 (38)

    I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

  • Psalms 51:9 (34)

    Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

  • Colossians 2:14 (29)

    having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

  • Psalms 69:16 (25)

    Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.

  • 2 Samuel 11:2 (20)

    One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman ba

  • Ephesians 1:6–8 (16)

    to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

  • Psalms 25:6–7 (15)

    Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.

  • Psalms 106:45 (15)

    And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

  • Psalms 4:1 (15)

    For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You

  • Romans 5:20–21 (13)

    The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

  • Exodus 34:6–7 (12)

    Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to a

  • Lamentations 3:32 (11)

    Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

  • Ephesians 2:4–7 (10)

    But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

  • Micah 7:18–19 (10)

    Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does

  • Psalms 119:124 (9)

    Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes.

  • Psalms 40:11 (8)

    O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.

  • Numbers 14:18–19 (8)

    ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no mea

  • Psalms 109:21 (8)

    But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devot

  • Psalms 5:7 (7)

    But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temp

  • Psalms 106:7 (6)

    Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there

  • Psalms 69:13 (6)

    But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure

  • Isaiah 63:7 (5)

    I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the

  • Isaiah 63:15 (5)

    Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and

  • Daniel 9:9 (5)

    To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him

  • Psalms 145:9 (5)

    The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.

  • Jeremiah 18:23 (3)

    But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sig

  • Psalms 77:9 (3)

    Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah

  • Daniel 9:18 (2)

    Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are

  • Nehemiah 4:5 (2)

    Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.