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Psalm 19:13

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

11Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.
12Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.
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Notice

The word “dominion” makes presumptuous sin a question of who rules, while “your servant” locates the speaker’s allegiance with God.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 119:133Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.Both prayers ask God to prevent sin from having dominion over the speaker.
John 8:36If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.The psalm asks for freedom from sin’s dominion; Jesus speaks of the freedom the Son gives.
2 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.The psalm seeks God’s restraint against sin, while Paul assures his readers that the Lord will guard them from the evil one.
Psalm 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.Both speakers seek to avoid sin against God, one asking for restraint and the other treasuring God’s word.
Romans 6:12–14Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.Sin’s dominion is the shared concern: the psalm asks God to prevent it, and Romans commands believers to resist its reign.
Numbers 15:30“‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That soul shall be cut off from among his …Presumptuous sin in the psalm shares the defiance described as acting “with a high hand” in Numbers.
Psalm 7:10My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.Both passages connect uprightness with God’s help: one seeks his restraint, and the other names him as shield and savior.
Psalm 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.Both passages speak of a blameless life in relation to God’s help and goodness.
Acts 24:16In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.The psalm seeks innocence from great transgression; Paul describes his practice of keeping a conscience free from offense.
1 Samuel 25:39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his …The psalm asks God to keep back his servant from sin; David thanks God for having kept his servant from evil.
Deuteronomy 17:12–13The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. …Both texts treat presumptuous conduct as grave wrongdoing; Deuteronomy specifies refusal to listen to the priest or judge.
Where this verse fits

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray Psalm 19:13 aloud before breakfast tomorrow

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Encouragement

Asking God to restrain sin is a fitting prayer for his servant. The upright life sought here depends on God’s help.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).