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


In Context

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.

29 For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

2 Samuel 22:27 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

22:27to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:27With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:27With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:27With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:27With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; And with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:27With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt shew thyself froward.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:27With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt contend.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:27With the pure Thou shewest Thyself pure, And with the perverse Thou shewest Thyself a wrestler.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:27With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the fraudulent you will show yourself unsavory.