Psalm 51:10 “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.”

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

World English Bible

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

American Standard Version

Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.

Geneva Bible 1599

Create in mee a cleane heart, O God, and renue a right spirit within me.

Darby Translation

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Young's Literal Translation

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.

Bible in Basic English

Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

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Cross references

“Create”

2 Corinthians 5:17 Ephesians 2:10

2 Corinthians 5:17 · BSB

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

Ephesians 2:10 · BSB

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

“clean”

Ezekiel 11:19 Matthew 5:8 Ezekiel 18:31 Ezekiel 36:25–27 Acts 15:9 1 Peter 1:22

Ezekiel 11:19 · BSB

And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,

Matthew 5:8 · BSB

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Ezekiel 18:31 · BSB

Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 36:25–27 · BSB

I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.

Acts 15:9 · BSB

He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.

1 Peter 1:22 · BSB

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

“renew”

Ephesians 4:22–24 Romans 12:2 Titus 3:5 Colossians 3:10

Ephesians 4:22–24 · BSB

to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

Romans 12:2 · BSB

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Titus 3:5 · BSB

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Colossians 3:10 · BSB

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

“right”

1 Corinthians 15:58 James 1:8 Psalm 78:8 Psalm 78:37 1 Kings 15:3–5 Acts 11:23

1 Corinthians 15:58 · BSB

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

James 1:8 · BSB

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Psalm 78:8 · BSB

Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psalm 78:37 · BSB

Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

1 Kings 15:3–5 · BSB

And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.

Acts 11:23 · BSB

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.

Also

Psalm 24:4

Psalm 24:4 · BSB

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

11Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

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