Psalm 18:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

with the pure you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you show yourself shrewd.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; And with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

With the pure You will show Yourself pure, and with the perverse You will show Yourself contrary.

American Standard Version (1901)

With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.

Common English Bible

You are pure toward the pure, but toward the crooked, you are tricky.

Psalm 18:26 Cross References

Proverbs 3:34

Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor.

Micah 2:7

Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Is the Lord’s patience exhausted? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to one who walks uprightly?

Romans 2:9

There will be affliction and distress for everyone who does evil, both the Jew first and the Greek,

James 2:13

For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: I promised that your family and the family of your ancestor should go in and out before me forever, but now the Lord declares: Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be treated with contempt.