Psalms 18:26
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
BSB
ASV
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.
KJV
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
By perverse, he means he will chastise sinners. For his natural uprightness … and his goodness toward those who believe obediently are immovable and unshakable.… Therefore, he treats them severely in the hope that perhaps he might curb their impulse toward death.
Those that show mercy to others (even they need mercy, and cannot depend upon the merit, no, not of their works of mercy) shall find mercy with God, Matt. v. 7 . Those that are faithful to their covenants with God, and the relations wherein they stand to him, shall find him all that to them which he has promised to be.
"With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward." The sinner's frowardness is sinful and rebellious, and the only sense in which the term can be applied to the Most Holy God is that of judicial opposition and sternness, in which the Judge of all the earth will act at cross-purposes with the offender, and let him see that all things are not to be made subservient to wicked whims and wilful fancies.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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James 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.
But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
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Proverbs 3:34He mocks the mockers, but gives grace to the humble.
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But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.