Psalms 18:25
With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
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In Context
26With the pure, you will show yourself pure.With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:17and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and did not forsake them.
Psalms 41:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.Blessed is he who considers the poor.The Lord will deliver him in the day of evil.
Psalms 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright,HETgracious, merciful, and righteous.TET
Isaiah 57:1The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
Ezekiel 18:25"'Yet you say, "The way of the Lord is not equal." Hear now, house of Israel: "Is my way not equal? Aren't your ways unequal?"
Matthew 18:33Should not you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'
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 →