2 Samuel 12:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

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.’ Nathan said to David, ‘Now the Lord has put away your sin; you shall not die. ¹⁴ Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord,^[a] the child that is born to you shall die.’