2 Samuel 22:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt shew thyself froward.

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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 unsavoury.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

To the pure You will show Yourself pure, and to the willful You will show Yourself willful.

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.

Catholic Public Domain Version

With the elect one, you will be elect, and with the perverse one, you will be perverse.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

2 Samuel 22:27 Cross References

Psalm 125:5

But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, The LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

Psalm 18:26

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

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: yea, in the thing wherein they dealt proudly against them.

Isaiah 45:9

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Romans 1:28

And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

1 John 3:3

And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.