2 Samuel 22:27
With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the frowarde thou wilt shew thy selfe frowarde.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
In Context
28Thus thou wilt saue the poore people: but thine eyes are vpon the hautie to humble them.
Cross References
Exodus 18:11Now I know that the Lord is greater then all the gods: for as they haue dealt proudly with them, so are they recompensed.
Leviticus 26:24Then wil I also walke stubburnly against you, and I will smite you yet seuen times for your sinnes:
Psalms 18:26With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the froward thou wilt shewe thy selfe froward.
Isaiah 45:9Woe be vnto him that striueth with his maker, the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth: shall the clay say to him that facioneth it, What makest thou? or thy worke, It hath none 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 →