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Psalm 51:8
The 2026 edition cites 3 passages containing Psalm 51:8, each printed here in the KJV with every place in the Constitution that cites it.
Psalm 51:7-10
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Cited by 1 place in the Constitution
Larger Catechism 1
- LC 194
In the fifth petition, (which is, Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,) acknowledging, that we and all others are guilty both of original and…
Psalm 51:7-12
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Cited by 1 place in the Constitution
Westminster Confession of Faith 1
- CF 11.5
God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified; and, although they can never fall from the state of justification; yet they may, by their…
Psalm 51:8
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Cited by 4 places in the Constitution
Westminster Confession of Faith 2
- CF 17.3
Nevertheless, they may, through the temptations of Satan and of the world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of the means of…
- CF 18.4
True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as, by negligence in preserving of it, by falling…
Testimony of the RPCNA 1
- T 15.9
Godly repentance implies true faith and union with Christ, but is not the ground of pardon. It precedes the joy which flows from the assurance of pardon.
Larger Catechism 1
- LC 81
Assurance of grace and salvation not being of the essence of faith, true believers may wait long before they obtain it; and, after the enjoyment thereof, may…