2 Samuel 22:27
Good News Translation
You are pure to those who are pure, but hostile to those who are wicked.

New Revised Standard Version
with the pure you show yourself pure, and with the crooked you show yourself perverse.

Contemporary English Version
With all who are sincere you are sincere, but you treat the unfaithful as their deeds deserve.

New American Bible
Toward the sincere you are sincere; but to the perverse you are devious.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

the pure

Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God.

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Leviticus 26:23-28 And if even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me: . . .

Deuteronomy 28:51-61 And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee. . . .

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

shew thyself unsavoury.

Exodus 18:11 Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because they dealt proudly against them.

Psalm 18:26 And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?

Context
David's Song of Deliverance
26With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant perfect. 27With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.28And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou shalt humble the haughty.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God.

Romans 1:28
And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

1 John 3:3
And every one that hath this hope in him sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy.

Leviticus 26:23
And if even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me:

Leviticus 26:24
I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike you seven times for your sins.

2 Samuel 22:26
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