A moment in scripture
2 Samuel 22:26
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With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
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The surrounding passage
- 2 Samuel 22:24
I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
- 2 Samuel 22:25
Therefore the Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
- 2 Samuel 22:27
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
- 2 Samuel 22:28
And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.