2 Samuel 22:22
Good News Translation
I have obeyed the law of the LORD; I have not turned away from my God.

New Revised Standard Version
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Contemporary English Version
I do what you want and never turn to do evil.

New American Bible
For I kept the ways of the LORD; I was not disloyal to my God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

I have kept

Numbers 16:15 Moses therefore being very angry, said to the Lord: Respect not their sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as a young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them.

1 Samuel 12:3 Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.

Job 23:10-12 But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire: . . .

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

the ways

Genesis 18:19 For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

Psalm 119:1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Psalm 128:1 A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.

Proverbs 8:32 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

have not

Psalm 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.

Psalm 125:5 But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.

Zephaniah 1:6 And them that turn away from following after the Lord, and that have not sought the Lord, nor searched after him.

John 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I also have kept my Father's commandments and do abide in his love.

Hebrews 10:38,39 But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul. . . .

Context
David's Song of Deliverance
21The Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands he will render to me. 22Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.23For all his judgments are in my sight: and his precepts I have not removed from me.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:19
For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

Psalm 128:1
A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.

Proverbs 8:32
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

2 Samuel 22:21
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