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2 Samuel 22

2 Samuel 22:27

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

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  • WEB World English Bible

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

  • KJV King James Version

    With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    With the pure Thou dost show myself pure; and with the crooked Thou dost show Thyself subtle.

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Cross-references (7)

Passages linked to 2 Samuel 22:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Psalms 18:26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
  • Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
  • Leviticus 26:23-28 “ ‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me, then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied. “ ‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me, then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
  • Psalms 125:5 But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
  • Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’
  • Exodus 18:11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
  • Deuteronomy 28:58-61 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God, then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration. He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you. Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you until you are destroyed.

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Explain this verse (4 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Their wickedness is cause that thou seemest to forget…

Their wickedness is cause that thou seemest to forget thy wonted mercy.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He is the tower of salvation for his king:…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. with the pure, &c.] Properly one who purifies…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (27) Unsavoury.—Rather, froward, for although the form here is…

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