KJV King James Version
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
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Psalm 51:11
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
WEB World English Bible
Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.
ASV American Standard Version
Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy holy Spirit from me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Cast me not forth from Thy presence, And Thy Holy Spirit take not from me.
Surrounding context — Psalm 51
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] free spirit.
13 [Then] will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
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Ephesians 4:30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.2 Kings 13:23And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.Isaiah 63:10-11But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought against them.Romans 8:9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.Genesis 6:3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.John 14:26But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.Psalm 71:18Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation, [and] thy power to every one [that] is to come.Luke 11:13If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?1 Samuel 10:10And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.1 Samuel 16:14But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.Psalm 71:9Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.Judges 16:20And she said, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.2 Thessalonians 1:9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;Psalm 43:2For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?2 Kings 24:20For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.Judges 15:14[And] when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that [were] upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.2 Samuel 7:15But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took [it] from Saul, whom I put away before thee.Judges 13:25And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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