Bible Strands
Psalms 19:13
Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist petitions YHWH, escalating from hidden faults (v12) to deliberate, willful sin, and closing with a prayer for acceptable speech (v14).
The words — ze.Dim (H2086) is the noun: presumptuous, deliberate sins, not slips but acts of defiance. yim.she.lu (H4910) gives them agency — "they rule" — framing sin as a sovereign over the person.
The thread — Psalms 119:133 repeats the exact "rule over me" formulation; Romans 6:12 carries the same "reign" image in Paul's argument against sin's dominion.
Why it lands — It asks the reader to identify which specific sin is actually governing their life, not to pray a generic "keep me from sin" and move on.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Cross-references
- Psalms 119:133 Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.
- Romans 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
- Psalms 7:10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
- 1 Samuel 25:39 On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought the wickedness of Nabal down upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.
- Psalms 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
- Acts 24:16 In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
- Genesis 20:6 Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
- Deuteronomy 17:12 But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
- Exodus 21:14 But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.
- 1 Chronicles 10:13 So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance,