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2 Samuel 22:27
2 Samuel 22:27 is verse 27 of 2 Samuel chapter 22, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
King James Version
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
World English Bible
With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
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2 Samuel 22:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.
26 To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;
27 to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
28 You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
29 For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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,
Leviticus 26:24then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
Leviticus 26:25And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
Leviticus 26:27But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
Leviticus 26:28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
Deuteronomy 28:58If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—
Deuteronomy 28:59He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
Deuteronomy 28:60He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.
Deuteronomy 28:61The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
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’?