Psalms 51:4
Hebrew Text— Psalms 51:4Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
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The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
“ ‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.
For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.
“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
“ ‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
“ ‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.
“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight; and he killed him.
I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.
Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.
He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;
May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”
For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:
If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.
Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”
David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.
Moreover Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in Yahweh’s house.
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”
Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”
The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.
in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power and reigned.
No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
“ ‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
“ ‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory.
Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”
the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. So Yahweh killed him.
It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh.”
“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,
The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.
If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.
He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”
Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.
They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.
Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.
“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her. Spare no arrows; for she has sinned against Yahweh.
“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!
When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.
because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, O Holy One, because you have judged these things.
I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;