2 Samuel 22:27
With the pure Thou shewest Thyself pure, And with the perverse Thou shewest Thyself a wrestler.
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Referenced Verses
- Matt 5:8 : 8 `Happy the clean in heart -- because they shall see God.
- Exod 18:11 : 11 now I have known that Jehovah `is' greater than all the gods, for in the thing they have acted proudly -- `He is' above them!'
- Lev 26:23-28 : 23 `And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me `in' opposition, 24 then I have walked -- I also -- with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins; 25 and I have brought in on you a sword, executing the vengeance of a covenant; and ye have been gathered unto your cities, and I have sent pestilence into your midst, and ye have been given into the hand of an enemy. 26 `In My breaking to you the staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and ye have eaten, and are not satisfied. 27 `And if for this ye hearken not to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition, 28 then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.
- Deut 28:58-61 : 58 `If thou dost not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honoured and fearful name -- Jehovah thy God -- 59 then hath Jehovah made wonderful thy strokes, and the strokes of thy seed -- great strokes, and stedfast, and evil sicknesses, and stedfast. 60 `And He hath brought back on thee all the diseases of Egypt, of the presence of which thou hast been afraid, and they have cleaved to thee; 61 also every sickness and every stroke which is not written in the book of this law; Jehovah doth cause them to go up upon thee till thou art destroyed,
- Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,
- Ps 125:5 : 5 As to those turning `to' their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!
- Isa 45:9 : 9 Wo `to' him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?'
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- Ps 18:25-273 verses97%
25 With the kind Thou showest Thyself kind, With a perfect man showest Thyself perfect.
26 With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,
27 For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.
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26 With the kind Thou shewest Thyself kind, With the perfect man Thou shewest Thyself perfect,
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8 Froward `is' the way of a man who is vile, And the pure -- upright `is' his work.
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28 And the poor people Thou dost save, And Thine eyes on the high causest to fall.
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32 For an abomination to Jehovah `is' the perverted, And with the upright `is' His secret counsel.
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20 An abomination to Jehovah `are' the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way `are' His delight.
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13 Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,
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4 And thou sayest, `Pure `is' my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'
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12 To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,
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3 The integrity of the upright leadeth them, And the perverseness of the treacherous destroyeth them.
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27 An abomination to the righteous `is' the perverse man, And an abomination to the wicked `is' the upright in the way!
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15 all things, indeed, `are' pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast `is' nothing pure, but of them defiled `are' even the mind and the conscience;
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15 Whose paths `are' crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
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4 A perverse heart turneth aside from me, Wickedness I know not.
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26 An abomination to Jehovah `are' thoughts of wickedness, And pure `are' sayings of pleasantness.
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17 And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,
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29 A wicked man hath hardened by his face, And the upright -- he prepareth his way.
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4 For not a God desiring wickedness `art' Thou, Evil inhabiteth Thee not.
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24 Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,
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3 Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee.
4 Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
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4 Do good, O Jehovah, to the good, And to the upright in their hearts.
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3 Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth.
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7 The path for the righteous `is' uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.
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12 A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.
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15 For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.
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30 He delivereth the not innocent, Yea, he hath been delivered By the cleanness of thy hands.
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11 Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.
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20 The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.
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4 And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.
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11 Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace `are' his lips, a king `is' his friend.
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9 Whoso is walking in integrity walketh confidently, And whoso is perverting his ways is known.
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13 Perfect thou art with Jehovah thy God,
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6 Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.
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17 I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:
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6 Sayings of Jehovah `are' pure sayings; Silver tried in a furnace of earth refined sevenfold.
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8 Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.
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6 Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.
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12 A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking `with' perverseness of mouth,
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4 The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.
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32 The lips of the righteous know a pleasing thing, And the mouth of the wicked perverseness!
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6 In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.
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11 Do I reckon `it' pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
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1 Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse `in' his lips, who `is' a fool.
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7 For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
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9 Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.
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2 The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.