2 Samuel 22:24
And I am perfect before Him, And I keep myself from mine iniquity.
Young's Literal Translation
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 to His statutes, I turn not from them.
Cross References
Genesis 6:9These [are] births of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.
Job 1:1A man there hath been in the land of Uz — Job his name — and that man hath been perfect and upright — both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.
Psalms 51:6Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.
Proverbs 4:23Above every charge keep thy 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 to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;
Hebrews 12:1Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,
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 →