Psalms 18:25
And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
24And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.
26With the holy, thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:17And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders which thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave the head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But thou, a forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full of compassion, didst not forsake them.
Psalms 41:1Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.
Psalms 112:4To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, and compassionate and just.
Isaiah 57:1The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil.
Ezekiel 18:25And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear ye, therefore, O house of Israel: Is it my way that is not right, and are not rather your ways perverse?
Matthew 18:33Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow servant, even as I had compassion on thee?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 18:21-29
Devout Thanksgivings; Devout Confidence 20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord , and have not wickedly departed from my God. 22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. 23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. 24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in… Read the whole commentary →