2 Samuel 22:24
I was also perfect toward him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
In Context
23For all his ordinances were before me. And as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
Cross References
Genesis 6:9These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.
Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Psalms 51:6Behold, thou desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part thou will make me to know wisdom.
Proverbs 4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.
2 Corinthians 5:11Having seen therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. But we have been manifested to God, and I hope also to have been manifested in your consciences.
Hebrews 12:1Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.
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 →