Psalm 130:3

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

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him.

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Hear me, O Lord, when I cry out! Have mercy on me and answer me!

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