6 At that the [true] God said to him in the dream: “I too have known that in the honesty of your heart you have done this,+ and I was also holding you back from sinning against me.+ That is why I did not allow you to touch her.+

9 There is no one greater in this house than I am, and he has not withheld from me anything at all except you, because you are his wife.+ So how could I commit this great badness and actually sin against God?”+

19 It is a guilt offering. He has positively become guilty+ against Jehovah.”

13 David now said+ to Nathan: “I have sinned against Jehovah.”+ At this Nathan said to David: “Jehovah, in turn, does let your sin pass by.+ You will not die.+

21 Then the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.*+ I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Make me as one of your hired men.’*+