2 Samuel 22:27

With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; And with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

In Context

26With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; With the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;

28And the afflicted people thou dost save; And thine eyes are upon the haughty, [whom] thou bringest down.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:11Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they acted haughtily [he was] above them.

Leviticus 26:24then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will smite you, even I, sevenfold for your sins.

Psalms 18:26With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.

Isaiah 45:9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let a potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that formeth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no hands?

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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