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Psalm 25:7
Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, LORD.
5Guide me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.
6LORD, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.
7Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, LORD.
8Good and upright is the LORD, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
9He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
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The plea to be remembered with loving kindness names the fear that old sins might define how God sees you, and appeals to his goodness.
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Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.The psalm asks God to remember no sins for his goodness’ sake; Isaiah declares that God blots out transgressions for his own sake.
Psalm 119:9How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.Both passages connect youth with moral life: one asks mercy for past sins, while the other seeks purity through God's word.
Psalm 106:4Remember me, LORD, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,Both prayers ask the LORD to remember the speaker with kindness or favor.
Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.Both connect God's love with his treatment of sin: the psalm asks for mercy, and Isaiah describes sins cast behind God's back.
Psalm 115:12The LORD remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.The plea for God to remember the speaker in kindness shares its hope with the declaration that God remembers and blesses his people.
Hebrews 10:16–18“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,” says the Lord, “I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;” …The shared thread is God's relationship with people; the supplied Hebrews verse speaks of covenant, while the psalm asks for mercy.
Job 13:26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.Both name sins of youth: the psalm asks God not to remember them, while Job laments bearing their consequences.
Hebrews 8:12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”The psalm asks God not to remember sins; Hebrews speaks of God's mercy and his promise to remember sins no more.
Jeremiah 3:25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. …Both confess sins reaching back to youth, with Jeremiah describing shame and the psalm appealing to God's loving kindness.
1 Samuel 1:19They rose up in the morning early and worshiped the LORD, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD …Both speak of the LORD remembering a person: the psalm requests it, and Hannah's account states that he remembered her.
Ephesians 1:6–7to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved.Both turn attention toward God's kindness: the psalm appeals to his goodness, and Ephesians praises the grace through which he gives favor.
Psalm 79:8Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.Both prayers ask God not to hold past sins against people and appeal to his mercy.
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You need no excuse for the past to pray these words. The psalm names sin without softening it, and grounds its plea for mercy in God's own goodness.
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