aPs. 7:8; 1 Sam. 24:19; 26:23; 1 Kgs. 8:32
bSee Job 22:30
c[Gen. 18:19; Prov. 8:32]
dPs. 119:30, 102
fGen. 17:1; [1 Kgs. 14:8]
gMatt. 5:7
hPs. 81:12; Lev. 26:23, 24; Prov. 3:34; Acts 7:42; Rom. 1:28
i[Ex. 3:7]
jSee Ps. 101:5
kPs. 132:17; 1 Kgs. 11:36; 15:4; 2 Kgs. 8:19; [2 Sam. 21:17]; See Job 18:5, 6

Psalms 18:20-28

20 The Lord dealt with me aaccording to my righteousness;
according to bthe cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
 21For I have ckept the ways of the Lord,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
 22For dall his rules ▼
▼Or just decrees
 were before me,
and his statutes I did not put away from me.
 23I was fblameless before him,
and I kept myself from my guilt.
 24So the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
 25 With gthe merciful you show yourself merciful;
with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;
 26with the purified you show yourself pure;
and with hthe crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
 27For you save ia humble people,
but jthe haughty eyes you bring down.
 28For it is you who light my klamp;
the Lord my God lightens my darkness.
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