2 Samuel 22:24
And I shall be perfect with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
In Context
23For all his judgments are in my sight: and his precepts I have not removed from me.
Cross References
Genesis 6:9These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.
Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.
Psalms 51:6To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words and mayst overcome when thou art judged.
Proverbs 4:23With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
2 Corinthians 5:11Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we use persuasion to men; but to God we are manifest. And I trust also that in your consciences we are manifest.
Hebrews 12:1And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to 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 →