2 Samuel 22:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ with the pure you show yourself pure, and with the crooked you show yourself shrewd.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; And with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ To the pure You will show Yourself pure, and to the willful You will show Yourself willful.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.

Common English Bible

²⁷ You are pure toward the pure, but toward the crooked, you are tricky.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ 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

²⁷ 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 those who turn aside to their own crooked ways, the Lord will lead away with evildoers. Peace be upon Israel!

Psalm 18:26

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

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because he delivered the people from the Egyptians, when they dealt arrogantly with them.”

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to those who strive with their Maker, earthen vessels with the potter! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”? or “Your work has no handles”?

Matthew 5:8

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.

1 John 3:3

And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.