A moment in scripture
Psalms 18:23
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I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 18:21
For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
- Psalms 18:22
For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
- Psalms 18:24
Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
- Psalms 18:25
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.