2 Samuel 22:26

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

In Context

25Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.

27With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:7Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

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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