Psalms 25:11

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“For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.”

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BSBPD

“For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For thy name’s sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For thy name’s sake, O Jehovah, Pardon mine iniquity, for it is great.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“For Thy name's sake, O Jehovah, Thou hast pardoned mine iniquity, for it <FI>is<Fi> great.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 25:11 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 34:7maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
  2. Numbers 14:17So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:
  3. Psalms 31:3For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.
  4. Psalms 79:9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.
  5. Psalms 109:21But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.
  6. Psalms 143:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
  7. Isaiah 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
  8. Isaiah 48:9For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.
  9. Jeremiah 14:7Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.
  10. Ezekiel 20:9But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
  11. Ezekiel 36:22Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.
  12. Romans 5:15But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
  13. Romans 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
  14. 1 John 2:12I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.

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