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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,.... All sin, though committed against a fellow creature, being a transgression of the law, is against the lawgiver; and, indeed, begins at the neglect or contempt of his commandment, as David's sin did, 2 Samuel 12:9; and being committed against God, that had bestowed so many favours upon him, was a cutting...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight “I have sinned against others; but this is the foulness of the blot, the venom of the sting, that I have sinned against my God.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was sharpen in iniquity and in sin did my not mother conceive me. “’Behold,’ for this is a wonder, and I look at it, and I mourn over it; behold, before I had a shape, I was out of shape. Before I saw anything, still there was sin antecedent to my very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. David’s great iniquity was a sin against many, but he had been brought to learn what few see, that the virus of sin lies in its being against God. Last Sabbath evening, our subject was that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: Oh, what an awful thing, to commit adultery in the sight of God! It is horrible; but what must it be to commit any sin in the sight of God? Will a rebel talk treason in the presence of his king? Most men court the darkness that they may not be seen to do evil; but it is the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. David had sinned against a great many others beside God, but the virus, the very poison of the sin, seemed to him to lie in this, that he had sinned against God. The unregenerate usually take...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. “The essence, the virus, the climax of my sin consists in its assault upon thee, my God; therefore, O God, if thou condemnest me, thou wilt be just! There is nothing that can be said against...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. This is the sting of sin to a truly penitent man, that he has sinned against God. The carnal mind sees nothing in that. If ever it does repent, it repents of doing wrong to man. It only takes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. He had sinned against his people, setting them an ill-example — sinned against Bath-Sheba and Uriah; but he sees the whole evil concentrating itself, as it were, upon his God. He felt that the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. For, in sin, this is the essence of it—that it is sin against God. You cannot get the worldly man to feel that. “I have done no hurt to my neighbour. I have not injured society.” But how...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight: “It is true that I have grieved others, and that I have done much injury to others by my sin; but, in all this, I have sinned most against thee. The virus — the essence of my sin is that it has been committed against thee, O my God!” Psa_51:4. That thou mightest be justified...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Whatever God may say to us, however sharp it is, and whatever God may do to us, however terrible it is, we deserve it; and when we are in a penitential frame of mind, we feel that it is so.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Against thee only have I sinned. Yet he had sinned against many more; but just now the thought of his sin against God swallowed up all else. All his offenses against his fellow men were trivial compared with the high treason which he had committed against his God. This is the virus of sin, that it is sin against God. Psa_51:4. And done this evil...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity,.... This cannot be understood of any personal iniquity of his immediate parents; since this respects his wonderful formation in the womb, in which both he and they were wholly passive, as the word here used is of that form; and is the amazing work of God himself, so much admired by the psalmist, Psalms 139:13; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. “I am bad from the fountain-head of my being, and wrong all through. It is not only what I do that is wrong, but I myself am wrong; I am a double-dyed traitor, and of a traitress born.” I doubt not that David’s mother was as good as any mother probably she was a true child of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. “If I had not been bad, I should not have acted so badly. The streams betray the fountain. If I had not been wicked at the core, I should not have acted so wickedly; but the evil tree has brought forth evil fruit.” It is well when actual sin leads us to feel the depth of our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. David has got further than seeing sin upon him, he sees that he is himself sinfulness, that his nature, his very being, is steeped and dyed in sin. The evil is, not merely that thou hast sinned, but that thou art a sinner. Sin would never come out of thee if it were not in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, David is full of astonishment and amazement; his one great sin has opened his eyes to see the sinfulness of his whole nature. Psa_51:5. I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. “I was ‘shapen in iniquity’ when I was shapen, and ‘conceived in sin’ when I was conceived.” He sees that the sin is in himself, and that it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts:- Then it is not sufficient for me to be washed outside, and being outwardly moral is not enough. “ Thou desirest truth in the inward parts: “-
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me. and · shall be whiter than snow. “Behold,” says he, as if to go to the bottom of it, and to show that sin was not an...