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Psalm 32:2

Blessed is the man to whom the LORD doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

1By David. A contemplative psalm. Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2Blessed is the man to whom the LORD doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
4For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
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“Blessed” describes someone with real guilt forgiven, and the mention of a spirit without deceit brings the question of inner honesty close to home.

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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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John 1:47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”Jesus describes Nathanael as having no deceit, the same inward quality Psalm 32 names in the blessed person.
Romans 4:8Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”Both pronounce a person blessed because the Lord does not charge that person with sin.
Ephesians 4:15but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,Both value truth: the psalm describes a spirit without deceit, while Ephesians speaks of truthful speech in love.
Revelation 14:5In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.The absence of deceit marks the blessed person in the psalm, while Revelation describes people whose mouths contain no lie.
2 Corinthians 5:19–21namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.Both describe God declining to reckon wrongdoing against people; Corinthians places this within God's work of reconciliation in Christ.
1 Peter 2:1–2Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,Deceit is absent from the blessed person's spirit in the psalm, and Peter directs his readers to put all deceit away.
Psalm 119:80Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. KAPFBoth concern inward integrity before God: a spirit without deceit and a heart seeking blamelessness toward his decrees.
1 Corinthians 5:8Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.The psalm's spirit without deceit shares the sincerity and truth that Paul names through the image of unleavened bread.
Leviticus 17:4and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to the LORD before the LORD’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that …Both speak of guilt being imputed: Leviticus assigns bloodguilt for the specified offense, while the psalm blesses the person spared that reckoning.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved …Both describe integrity before God, with the psalm naming freedom from deceit and Paul describing conduct marked by sincerity.
Psalm 32:11Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!The spirit without deceit at the psalm's opening corresponds to the upright heart among those told to rejoice at its close.
Where this verse fits

Guilt and confession. gratitude.

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Encouragement

The blessing rests on YHWH’s refusal to count sin against a person. The same sentence describes a spirit free of deceit; forgiveness and honesty belong together.

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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).