Psalms 18:26

World English Bible (2000)

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

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:34 : 34 Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
  • Lev 26:23-24 : 23 "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me; 24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
  • Lev 26:27-28 : 27 "'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me; 28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
  • Ps 109:17-19 : 17 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him. 18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.
  • Rom 2:4-6 : 4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God; 6 who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"
  • Rom 2:9 : 9 oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Sam 22:26-28
    3 verses
    97%

    26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

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

    28 You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.

  • Ps 18:24-25
    2 verses
    88%

    24 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

    25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

  • Prov 21:8
    76%

    8 The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

  • Ps 18:27
    75%

    27 For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.

  • Job 11:4
    72%

    4 For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'

  • Prov 2:12
    72%

    12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

  • Prov 11:20
    72%

    20 Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

  • Prov 3:32
    71%

    32 For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

  • Prov 2:15
    71%

    15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

  • Prov 11:3
    71%

    3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

  • Hab 1:13
    71%

    13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

  • Ps 101:4
    70%

    4 A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

  • Job 36:17
    70%

    17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Ps 5:4
    70%

    4 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

  • Ps 51:6
    70%

    6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

  • Deut 18:13
    70%

    13 You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.

  • Isa 26:7
    70%

    7 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

  • Prov 15:26
    70%

    26 Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

  • Ps 125:4
    70%

    4 Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

  • Prov 21:29
    70%

    29 A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

  • Ps 17:3
    69%

    3 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

  • Prov 20:11
    69%

    11 Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

  • Prov 4:24
    69%

    24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

  • Job 14:3
    69%

    3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Prov 10:9
    69%

    9 He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

  • Titus 1:15
    69%

    15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

  • Job 11:15
    69%

    15 Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:

  • Mic 6:11
    69%

    11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

  • Prov 16:6
    69%

    6 By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

  • Prov 30:12
    68%

    12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

  • Prov 6:12
    68%

    12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

  • Prov 28:6
    68%

    6 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

  • Job 15:17
    68%

    17 "I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare:

  • Prov 28:18
    68%

    18 Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

  • Ps 24:4
    68%

    4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

  • Ps 26:11
    68%

    11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

  • Ps 51:4
    68%

    4 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

  • Job 17:8
    68%

    8 Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

  • Prov 19:1
    68%

    1 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

  • Prov 3:4
    68%

    4 So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

  • Job 22:30
    68%

    30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

  • Job 17:4
    68%

    4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

  • Ps 36:10
    68%

    10 Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.

  • Ps 26:2
    68%

    2 Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

  • Ps 19:12
    68%

    12 Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

  • Isa 26:10
    68%

    10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh's majesty.

  • Prov 17:20
    68%

    20 One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.