Psalm 51:6 {50:8}
Good News Translation
Sincerity and truth are what you require; fill my mind with your wisdom.

New Revised Standard Version
You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Contemporary English Version
But you want complete honesty, so teach me true wisdom.

New American Bible
Behold, you desire true sincerity; and secretly you teach me wisdom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

Behold

Psalm 26:2 Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.

Psalm 125:4 Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to the upright of heart.

Genesis 20:5,6 Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and she say, He is my brother? in the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands have I done this. . . .

2 Kings 20:3 I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing before thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.

1 Chronicles 29:17 I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity, wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings.

2 Chronicles 31:20,21 So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and wrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his God, . . .

Proverbs 2:21 But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.

Jeremiah 5:3 O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.

John 4:23,24 But the hour cometh and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him. . . .

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

James 4:8 Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

inward

Psalm 5:9 For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

1 Samuel 16:7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

Job 38:36 Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?

Luke 11:39 And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity.

Romans 7:22 For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:

in the hidden

Job 32:8 But, as I see, there is a spirit in men, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding.

Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Jeremiah 32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and will not cease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart, that they may not revolt from me.

1 Peter 3:4 But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God.

Context
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
5For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me. 6For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.7Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.…
Cross References
James 1:5
But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.

Job 38:36
Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?

Psalm 15:2
He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:

Proverbs 2:6
He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity,

Ecclesiastes 2:26
God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

Psalm 51:5
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