2 Samuel 11:27  …the thing David had done displeased the Lord. —

Jeremiah 17:9—The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?

1 Corinthians 10:12—So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!

2 Samuel 5:17 (ESV) — 17 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.

2 Samuel 8:14 (ESV) — 14 Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David’s servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went. 

2 Samuel 11:1 (ESV) — 1 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 11:27 (ESV) — 27 And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

Psalm 40:8 (ESV) — 8 I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Psalm 119:11 (ESV) — 11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Jeremiah 17:9 (ESV) — 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 

1 Corinthians 10:12 (ESV) — 12 Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

2 Samuel 12:7 (ESV) — 7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

2 Samuel 12:8–15 (ESV) — 8 And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. 9 Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ 11 Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’ ” 

13 David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die. 14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the LORD, the child who is born to you shall die.”

Psalm 103:10-12  He does not punish us for all our sins; He does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve. For His unfailing love toward those who fear Him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.

Colossians 2:13,14  When you were dead in your sins…God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, blotting out the record that contained the charges against us. He took it and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ’s cross.

PSALM 51  A psalm of David, regarding the time Nathan the prophet came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.

Have mercy on me, O God, because of Your unfailing love. Because of Your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins. For I recognize my rebellion; it haunts me day and night.

Against You and You alone have I sinned; I have done what is evil in Your sight.

Your judgment against me is just.

For I was born a sinner…

Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Oh, give me back my joy again.

Remove the stain of my guilt.

Create in me a clean heart, O God.

Renew a loyal spirit within me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and make me willing to obey You. Unseal my lips, O Lord, that my mouth may praise You. You do not desire a sacrifice, or I would offer one.

The sacrifice You desire is a broken spirit.

You will not reject a broken and repentant heart.