2 Samuel 22:24
And I am perfect before Him, || And I keep myself from my iniquity.
Literal Standard Version
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] before me, || As for His statutes, I do not turn from them.
Cross References
Genesis 6:9These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; he has been perfect among his generations; Noah has habitually walked with God.
Job 1:1There has been a man in the land of Uz—his name Job—and that man has been perfect and upright—both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.
Psalms 51:6Behold, You have desired truth in the inward parts, || And in the hidden part You cause me to know Wisdom.
Proverbs 4:23Above every charge keep your heart, || For out of it [are] the outgoings of life.
2 Corinthians 5:11having known, therefore, the fear of the LORD, we persuade men, and we are revealed to God, and I also hope to have been revealed in your consciences;
Hebrews 12:1Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, having put off every weight, and the closely besetting sin, may we run the contest that is set before us through endurance,
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 →