Psalm 130:3

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

And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified.

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just before God?

If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from my iniquity.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

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

So when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.