2 Samuel 22:27
With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant perfect.
28And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou wilt humble the haughty.
Cross References
Exodus 18:11Now I know that the Lord is great above all gods: because they dealt proudly against them.
Leviticus 26:24I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike you seven times for your sins.
Psalms 18:26With the holy, thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent.
Isaiah 45:9Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without 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 →