Berean Standard Bible
2 Samuel 22:27
27to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
2 Samuel 22:27 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
- New International Version (NIV)to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.
- English Standard Version (ESV)with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
- New King James Version (NKJV)With the pure You will show Yourself pure; And with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd.
Context of 2 Samuel 22:27
25So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight. 26To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless; to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd. 28You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down. 29For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.
Read all of 2 Samuel 222 Samuel 22:27 word by word
עִם־נָבָ֖ר תִּתָּבָ֑ר וְעִם־עִקֵּ֖שׁ תִּתַּפָּֽל׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for 2 Samuel 22:27
- Matthew 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
- Leviticus 26:23And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
- Deuteronomy 28:51They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
- Psalms 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
- Exodus 18:11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”
- Psalms 18:26to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
- Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
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Commentaries on 2 Samuel 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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