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.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.> Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

²⁶ For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

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.

¹¹ His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

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.

⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

⁷ In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

⁴ But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

⁵ Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

⁶ So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

⁷ That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:

⁸ Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

¹² And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.

¹⁶ 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,

¹⁷ And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.

¹⁸ Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.

⁵ One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

⁹ Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

²⁵ I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.

¹⁶ Let your servant see the light of your face; in your mercy be my saviour.

⁸ Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.

¹⁴ Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

¹⁶ Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

²⁶ Give me help, O Lord my God; in your mercy be my saviour;

¹²⁴ Be good to your servant in your mercy, and give me teaching in your rules.

⁷ Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

⁸ Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

⁹ For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

¹⁰ And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

¹¹ And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

¹² And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

¹³ I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!

¹⁴ I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.

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.

⁴ Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.