Psalm 19:12 {18:13}
Good News Translation
None of us can see our own errors; deliver me, LORD, from hidden faults!

New Revised Standard Version
But who can detect their errors? Clear me from hidden faults.

Contemporary English Version
None of us know our faults. Forgive me when I sin without knowing it.

New American Bible
Who can detect trespasses? Cleanse me from my inadvertent sins.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:

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Psalm 40:12 For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

Job 6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant of any thing, instruct me.

Isaiah 64:6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

1 Corinthians 4:4 For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

Hebrews 9:7 But into the second, the high priest alone, once a year: not without blood, which he offereth for his own and the people's ignorance:

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Psalm 51:5-10 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me. . . .

Psalm 65:3 The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt pardon our transgressions.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

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Psalm 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.

Psalm 139:2,23,24 Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up. . . .

Leviticus 4:2 Say to the children of Israel: The soul that sinneth through ignorance, and doth any thing concerning any of the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded not to be done:

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Context
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
11For thy servant keepeth them, and in keeping them there is a great reward. 12Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:13And from those of others spare thy servant. If they shall have no dominion over me, then shall I be without spot: and I shall be cleansed from the greatest sin.…
Cross References
Psalm 18:23
And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.

Psalm 40:12
For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

Psalm 51:1
Unto the end, a psalm of David, [2] When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with Bethsabee. [3] Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.

Psalm 51:2
Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 90:8
Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.

Psalm 139:6
Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.

Psalm 139:23
Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.

Psalm 139:24
And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.

Ezekiel 45:20
And so shalt thou do in the seventh day of the month, for every one that hath been ignorant, and hath been deceived by error, and thou shalt make expiation for the house.

Psalm 19:11
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