2 Samuel 22:25
Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.
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In Context
24And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.
26On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:21The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.
Proverbs 5:21For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
Romans 2:7To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give 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 →