Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

New American Standard Bible

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
According to Your lovingkindness remember me,
For Your goodness’ sake, O Lord.

King James Version

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

Holman Bible

Do not remember the sins of my youth
or my acts of rebellion;
in keeping with Your faithful love, remember me
because of Your goodness, Lord.

International Standard Version

Do not remember my youthful sins and transgressions; but remember me in light of your gracious love, in light of your goodness, LORD.

A Conservative Version

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to thy loving kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

American Standard Version

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: According to thy lovingkindness remember thou me, For thy goodness'sake, O Jehovah.

Amplified


Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
According to Your lovingkindness remember me,
For Your goodness’ sake, O Lord.

Darby Translation

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, Jehovah.

Julia Smith Translation

The sins of my youth and my transgressions thou wilt not remember: according to thy mercy remember thou for me for sake of thy goodness, O Jehovah.

King James 2000

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember me for your goodness' sake, O LORD.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions. According to your loyal love remember me [if] you [will], for the sake of your goodness, O Yahweh.

Modern King James verseion

Do not remember the sins of my youth, or my rebellings; according to Your mercy remember me for Your goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O remember not the sins and offenses of my youth; but according to thy mercy think upon me, O LORD, for thy goodness.

NET Bible

Do not hold against me the sins of my youth or my rebellious acts! Because you are faithful to me, extend to me your favor, O Lord!

New Heart English Bible

Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness' sake, LORD.

The Emphasized Bible

The sins of my youth, and my transgressions, do not thou call to mind, - According to thine own lovingkindness, remember thou me, for the sake of thine own goodness, O Yahweh.

Webster

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

World English Bible

Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness' sake, Yahweh.

Youngs Literal Translation

Sins of my youth, and my transgressions, Do not Thou remember. According to Thy kindness be mindful of me, For Thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

Context Readings

Dependence On The Lord

6 O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times. 7 Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness. 8 Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way.


Cross References

Job 13:26

For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

Psalm 51:1

Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

Job 20:11

His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

Psalm 6:4

Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.

Psalm 31:16

Let your servant see the light of your face; in your mercy be my saviour.

Psalm 109:14

Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

Psalm 109:16

Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

Psalm 109:26

Give me help, O Lord my God; in your mercy be my saviour;

Psalm 119:124

Be good to your servant in your mercy, and give me teaching in your rules.

Proverbs 5:7-14

Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

Isaiah 38:17

See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

Isaiah 43:25

I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.

Isaiah 64:9

Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.

John 5:5

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

John 5:14

After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.

Ephesians 1:6-7

To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

Ephesians 2:4-8

But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

Hebrews 8:12

And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.

Hebrews 10:16-18

This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,

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