Psalm 51:5 {50:7}
Good News Translation
I have been evil from the day I was born; from the time I was conceived, I have been sinful.

New Revised Standard Version
Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.

Contemporary English Version
I have sinned and done wrong since the day I was born.

New American Bible
Behold, I was born in guilt, in sin my mother conceived me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

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Psalm 58:3 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his own image and likeness, and called his name Seth.

Genesis 8:21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

Job 14:4 Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

Job 15:14-16 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just? . . .

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 5:12 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.

Ephesians 2:3 In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

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Context
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
4To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged. 5For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.6For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.…
Cross References
Ephesians 2:3
In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

Genesis 8:21
And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

2 Samuel 11:27
And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing which David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.

Job 14:4
Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

Job 15:14
What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

Psalm 58:3
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

Psalm 51:4
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