The document is a summary of key points from Psalm 32:1-11 regarding why sin needs to be covered. It defines sin as transgression of God's law, unrighteousness, and omitting to do good. It explains that God regards sin as a dirty garment, corruption of the body, and filth. Sin separates man from God, results in misery and suffering, and ends in eternal punishment. Therefore, sin must be covered by God's forgiveness to avoid its curse and consequences.

2. Psalm 32:1-11
1 Blessed is he whose transgression is
forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD
does not impute iniquity, and in whose
spirit there is no deceit.

3. Psalm 32:1-11
3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old
Through my groaning all the day long.
4 For day and night Your hand was heavy
upon me; My vitality was turned into the
drought of summer. Selah

4. Psalm 32:1-11
5 I acknowledged my sin to You, and my
iniquity I have not hidden. I said, “I will
confess my transgressions to the LORD,”
And You forgave the iniquity of my sin.
Selah

5. Psalm 32:1-11
6 For this cause everyone who is godly
shall pray to You in a time when You may
be found; surely in a flood of great
waters they shall not come near him.

6. Psalm 32:1-11
7 You are my hiding place; You shall
preserve me from trouble; You shall
surround me with songs of deliverance.
Selah

7. Psalm 32:1-11
8 I will instruct you and teach you in the
way you should go; I will guide you with
my eye.

8. Psalm 32:1-11
9 Do not be like the horse or like the
mule, which have no understanding,
which must be harnessed with bit and
bridle, else they will not come near you.

9. Psalm 32:1-11
10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked;
But he who trusts in the LORD, mercy
shall surround him.

10. Psalm 32:1-11
11 Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you
righteous; and shout for joy, all you
upright in heart!

11. Psalm 32:1
Blessed is he whose
transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.

13. Biblical Uses of “Cover”
• Cover with protection (Isaiah 51:16)

14. Isaiah 51:16
And I have put My words in your
mouth; I have covered you with the
shadow of My hand, that I may plant
the heavens, lay the foundations of the
earth, and say to Zion,
‘You are My people.’ ”

15. Biblical Uses of “Cover”
• Cover with protection (Isaiah 51:16)
• Cover with destruction (Ezekiel 26:19)

16. Ezekiel 26:19
“For thus says the Lord GOD: ‘When I
make you a desolate city, like cities that
are not inhabited, when I bring the deep
upon you, and great waters cover you …”

17. Biblical Uses of “Cover”
• Cover with protection (Isaiah 51:16)
• Cover with destruction (Ezekiel 26:19)
• Cover with forgiveness (Psalm 32:1)

18. Psalm 32:1
Blessed is he whose
transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.

19. Biblical Uses of “Cover”
• Cover with protection (Isaiah 51:16)
• Cover with destruction (Ezekiel 26:19)
• Cover with forgiveness (Psalm 32:1)

20. Other figures used for forgiveness
of sins
• Borne away (Is. 53:4)
• Blotted out (Acts 3:19)
• Washed away (Acts 22:16)
• Healed (Psalm 6:2)

21. Why Does Sin Need to be Covered?
• What is sin?
• Transgression (1John 3:4)

22. 1John 3:4 (KJV)
Whosoever committeth sin
transgresseth also the law: for sin
is the transgression of the law.

23. Why Does Sin Need to be Covered?
• What is sin?
• Transgression (1John 3:4)
• Unrighteousness (1John 5:17)

24. 1John 5:17a
All unrighteousness is sin …

25. Why Does Sin Need to be Covered?
• What is sin?
• Transgression (1John 3:4)
• Unrighteousness (1John 5:17)
• Omission (James 4:17)

26. James 4:17
Therefore, to him who knows to
do good and does not do it, to
him it is sin.

27. Why Does Sin Need to be Covered?
• What is sin?
• Transgression (1John 3:4)
• Unrighteousness (1John 5:17)
• Omission (James 4:17)

28. Why Does Sin Need to be Covered?
• What is sin?
• The heinousness of sin! God regards as:
• A dirty garment (Rev. 3:4)

29. Revelation 3:4 (NRSV)
Yet you have still a few persons in
Sardis who have not soiled their
clothes; they will walk with me,
dressed in white, for they are worthy.

30. Why Does Sin Need to be Covered?
• What is sin?
• The heinousness of sin! God regards as:
• A dirty garment (Rev. 3:4)
• Corruption (dead/diseased body)

31. Isaiah 1:4-6
Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with
iniquity, A brood of evildoers, children
who are corrupters! They have forsaken
the LORD, they have provoked to anger
the Holy One of Israel, they have turned
away backward.

32. Isaiah 1:4-6
Why should you be stricken again? You
will revolt more and more.
The whole head is sick, and the whole
heart faints. From the sole of the foot

33. Isaiah 1:4-6
even to the head, there is no soundness
in it, but wounds and bruises and
putrefying sores; they have not been
closed or bound up, or soothed with
ointment.

34. Why Does Sin Need to be Covered?
• What is sin?
• The heinousness of sin! God regards as:
• A dirty garment (Rev. 3:4)
• Corruption (dead/diseased body)
• Filth and vomit (2Peter 2:21,22)

35. 2Peter 2:21,22
For it would have been better for them
not to have known the way of
righteousness, than having known it, to
turn from the holy commandment
delivered to them. But it has happened

36. 2Peter 2:21,22
to them according to the true proverb:
“A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a
sow, having washed, to her wallowing in
the mire.”

37. Why Does Sin Need to be Covered?
• What is sin?
• The heinousness of sin! God regards as:
• A dirty garment (Rev. 3:4)
• Corruption (dead/diseased body)
• Filth and vomit (2Peter 2:21,22)

38. Why Does Sin Need to be Covered?
• What is sin?
• The heinousness of sin!
• The curse of sin!
• It separates and alienates from God

39. Isaiah 59:1,2
Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened,
that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy,
that it cannot hear.

40. Isaiah 59:1,2
But your iniquities have separated you
from your God; and your sins have
hidden His face from you, so that He will
not hear.

41. Colossians 1:21
And you, who once were alienated and
enemies in your mind by wicked works,
yet now He has reconciled …

42. Why Does Sin Need to be Covered?
• What is sin?
• The heinousness of sin!
• The curse of sin!
• It separates and alienates from God
• It results in misery and suffering

43. 2Samuel 12:10-14
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.’
Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will raise

44. 2Samuel 12:10-14
up adversity against you from 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. For you did it

45. 2Samuel 12:10-14
secretly, but I will do this thing before all
Israel, before the sun.’ ”
So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned
against the LORD.”
And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also

46. 2Samuel 12:10-14
has put away your sin; you shall not die.
However, because by this deed you have
given great occasion to the enemies of
the LORD to blaspheme, the child also
who is born to you shall surely die.”

47. Why Does Sin Need to be Covered?
• What is sin?
• The heinousness of sin!
• The curse of sin!
• It separates and alienates from God
• It results in misery and suffering
• Its end is eternal
punishment

48. Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the
gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
our Lord.

49. James 1:14,15
But each one is tempted when he is
drawn away by his own desires and
enticed. Then, when desire has
conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin,
when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

50. Why Does Sin Need to be Covered?
• What is sin?
• The heinousness of sin!
• The curse of sin!
• It separates and alienates from God
• It results in misery and suffering
• Its end is eternal
punishment

51. Sin is the curse of man, the grief of
heaven and the delight of hell!
Therefore sin must be covered.
~Eugene W. Clevenger

52. Why Does Sin Need to be Covered?
• What is sin?
• The heinousness of sin!
• The curse of sin!