2 Samuel 22:27
 2 Samuel 22:27 
New International Version (©2011)
to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.

New Living Translation (©2007)
To the pure you show yourself pure, but to the wicked you show yourself hostile.

English Standard Version (©2001)
with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
With the pure You show Yourself pure, And with the perverted You show Yourself astute.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
with the pure You prove Yourself pure, but with the crooked You prove Yourself shrewd.

International Standard Version (©2012)
In the company of the pure you demonstrate your purity. In the company of the perverted you will appear to be perverse.

NET Bible (©2006)
You prove to be reliable to one who is blameless, but you prove to be deceptive to one who is perverse.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
with pure people you are pure. [In dealing] with devious people you are clever.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the devious you will show yourself shrewd.

American King James Version
With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the fraudulent you will show yourself unsavory.

American Standard Version
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

Darby Bible Translation
With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; And with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.

English Revised Version
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt shew thyself froward.

Webster's Bible Translation
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt contend.

World English Bible
With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

Young's Literal Translation
With the pure Thou shewest Thyself pure, And with the perverse Thou shewest Thyself a wrestler.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:1-51 David's psalm of thanksgiving. - This chapter is a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards nearly as Ps 18. They that trust God in the way of duty, shall find him a present help in their greatest dangers: David did so. Remarkable preservations should be particularly mentioned in our praises. We shall never be delivered from all enemies till we get to heaven. God will preserve all his people, 2Ti 4:18. Those who receive signal mercies from God, ought to give him the glory. In the day that God delivered David, he sang this song. While the mercy is fresh, and we are most affected with it, let the thank-offering be brought, to be kindled with the fire of that affection. All his joys and hopes close, as all our hopes should do, in the great Redeemer.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt show thyself unsavoury. See Gill on Psalm 18:26.


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David's Song of Deliverance
26With the merciful you will show yourself merciful, and with the upright man you will show yourself upright. 27With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the fraudulent you will show yourself unsavory. 28And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down. …

Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Romans 1:28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
1 John 3:3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
Leviticus 26:23 "'If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me,
Leviticus 26:24 I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.