Psalm 130:3

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If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

"Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?

If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.

What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her."

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud; be gracious to me and answer me!

"Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;