Tree of Life Version
Psalms 25:11
11For Your Name’s sake, Adonai, pardon my guilt, for it is great.
Psalms 25:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thy name’s sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
- New International Version (NIV)For the sake of your name, Lord, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For your name's sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For Your name’s sake, O Lord, Pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
Context of Psalms 25:11
9He guides the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble His way. 10All Adonai’s ways are lovingkindness and truth to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies. For Your Name’s sake, Adonai, pardon my guilt, for it is great. 12Who is this man who fears Adonai? He will instruct him in the way he should choose. 13His soul abides in goodness, and his offspring will inherit the land.
Read all of Psalms 25Psalms 25:11 word by word
לְמַֽעַן־שִׁמְךָ֥ יְהוָ֑ה וְֽסָלַחְתָּ֥ לַ֝עֲוֹנִ֗י כִּ֣י רַב־הֽוּא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 25:11
- Psalms 31:3Turn Your ear to me, rescue me quickly. Be a rock of refuge for me, a stronghold for my deliverance.
- Psalms 79:9Help us, God of our salvation— for the sake of the glory of Your Name. Deliver us, and atone for our sins— for Your name’s sake.
- Psalms 109:21But You, Adonai my Lord, deal with me for Your Name’s sake. Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me.
- Psalms 143:11For Your Name’s sake, Adonai, revive me. In Your justice bring my soul out of trouble.
- Isaiah 43:25I, I am the One who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.
- Isaiah 48:9For My Name’s sake I defer My anger, for My praise I will restrain it for you— otherwise I would cut you off.
- Ezekiel 20:9But I acted, for the sake of My Name, to keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations, where they were, in whose sight I made Myself known to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 36:22“Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘I do not do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for My holy Name, which you profaned among the nations wherever you went.
- 1 John 2:12I am writing to you, children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of His name.
- Numbers 14:17“So please, let Adonai show His strength, just as You have spoken saying,
- Romans 5:15But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if many died because of the transgression of one man, how much more did the grace of God overflow to many through the gift of one Man—Yeshua the Messiah.
Commentaries on Psalms 25:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon - I have sinned; I need mercy; there is no reason why thou shouldst show it, but what thou drawest from the goodness of thy own nature.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11For thy name‘s sake, O Lord - See the notes at Psalm 23:3. The idea here is that God would do this on His own account, or for the honor of His own name. This is A reason, and one of the main reasons, why God ever pardons iniquity. It is that the honor of His name may be promoted; that His glorious character may be displayed; that he may show himself to the universe to be merciful and gracious. There are, doubtless, other reasons why He pardons sin…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-14Verses 8-14 We are all sinners; and Christ came into the world to save sinners, to teach sinners, to call sinners to repentance. We value a promise by the character of him that makes it; we therefore depend upon God's promises. All the paths of the Lord, that is, all his promises and all his providences, are mercy and truth. In all God's dealings his people may see his mercy displayed, and his word fulfilled, whatever afflictions they are now exercised…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11The psalmist asks for forgiveness for his many sins (Psalms 25:7; 32:1–5). The sins of Israel’s kings showed the weaknesses in David’s family line and why it failed in Old Testament Israel (see Psalm 89).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. God's perfections of love, mercy, goodness, and truth are manifested (his name, compare Psa 9:10) in pardoning sin, and the greatness of sin renders pardon more needed.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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