26With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.


In Context

23 For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

24 I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

25 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.

26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

27 With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

28 You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.

2 Samuel 22:26 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

22:26"To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless,

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:26With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, [and] with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:26With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant perfect.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:26With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:26With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; With the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:26With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, with the perfect man thou wilt shew thyself perfect;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:26With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:26With the kind Thou shewest Thyself kind, With the perfect man Thou shewest Thyself perfect,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:26With the merciful you will show yourself merciful, and with the upright man you will show yourself upright.