2 Samuel 22:25

Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

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In Context

24I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

26With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 22:21The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

Proverbs 5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

Romans 2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:3-51

David's Song of Praise. ( b. c. 1020.) 1 And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: Observe here, I. That it has often been the lot of God's people to have many enemies, and to be in imminent danger of falling into their hands. David was a man after God's heart, but not after men's heart: many were those that hated him, and sought his ruin; Saul is particularly named, either, 1. As distinguished… Read the whole commentary →

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