the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Psalms 18:23
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I am blameless before God; I have kept myself from sin.
I was also perfect with him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from my iniquity.
I am innocent before him; I have kept myself from doing evil.
I was innocent before him, and kept myself from sinning.
I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
I was blameless before Him, And I kept myself free from my sin.
I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my guilt.
For alle hise domes ben in my siyt; and Y puttide not awei fro me hise riytfulnessis.
And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.
I obey you completely and guard against sin.
I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity.
And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.
for all his rulings were before me, I did not distance his regulations from me.
And I was upright with him, and kept myself from mine iniquity.
He knows I did nothing that was wrong. I have kept myself from sinning.
For all His ordinances were before me, and I put not away His statutes from me.
I was also vpright before him: and I kept my selfe from mine iniquity.
Before Him I was without blame. And I have kept myself from sin.
I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.
I was vpright also with him, & haue kept me from my wickednes.
I was also blameless before him, and I carefully kept myself from my sins.
He knows that I am faultless, that I have kept myself from doing wrong.
So became I blameless with him, and kept myself from mine iniquity.
(17-24) And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.
I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.
And I was sounde & pure towardes hym: and I was weery lest I shoulde offende hym with my wickednesse.
And I shall be blameless with hem, and shall keep myself from mine iniquity.
I was blameless toward himand kept myself from my iniquity.
I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
and I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my guilt.
For I was upright with Him and kept myself from my guilt.
And I am perfect with him, And I keep myself from mine iniquity.
Vncorrupte will I be before hi, & wil eschue myne owne wickednes.
I was also blameless with Him, And I kept myself from my wrongdoing.
I was also blameless before Him, And I kept myself from my iniquity.
I was also blameless with Him, And I kept myself from my iniquity.
I was also blameless with Him,And I kept myself from my iniquity.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
upright: Psalms 7:1 - Psalms 8:9, Psalms 11:7, Psalms 17:3, Psalms 37:27, 1 Samuel 26:23, 1 Chronicles 29:17
before: Heb. with
I kept: Matthew 5:29, Matthew 5:30, Matthew 18:8, Matthew 18:9
Reciprocal: Nehemiah 5:19 - according to Job 1:8 - a perfect Psalms 19:13 - I shall Psalms 119:101 - refrained Isaiah 3:10 - they shall eat Isaiah 26:7 - way Isaiah 26:8 - in Luke 3:13 - Exact Hebrews 12:1 - and the sin 1 John 5:18 - keepeth
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Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord , wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God , that I may declare all thy works.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I was also upright before him,.... In heart and conversation, being sincere and faithful; so David was in the sight of God; but this is much more true of Christ, in whom there was no unrighteousness nor guile, neither in his heart, nor in his lips; he was of perfect integrity, and faithful in all things to him that appointed him;
and I kept myself from mine iniquity; which some interpret of original sin, in which David was born, which dwelt in him, and prompted him to sin; but rather it refers to the taking away of Saul's life, which he might be tempted to do, as being his enemy that sought his life; and which he was put upon and urged to by some about him, and yet did it not. But it is best here also to apply these words to Christ; for though he had no iniquity of his own, yet he had the iniquities of his people on him, as their surety, and which he calls "mine", Psalms 40:12. But though he bore them, he did not commit any of them; though he was made sin, he knew none; and though he was tempted by Satan to the most enormous iniquities, as destroying himself and worshipping the devil, he kept himself from the evil one, that he could not touch him: the sense is, that he kept himself from committing any sin, which cannot be said of any mere man; and so far as good men are kept from sin, they are kept by the power of God, and not by themselves. All these things show, that the righteousness of Christ was a perfect, sinless one, entirely agreeable to the laws, statutes, and judgments of God; was pure in the sight of God, and rewardable in strict justice. Hence it is repeated as follows:
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I was also upright before him - Margin, with. The meaning is that he was upright in his sight. The word rendered upright is the same which in Job 1:1 is rendered perfect. See the note at that passage.
And I kept myself from mine iniquity - From the iniquity to which I was prone or inclined. This is an acknowledgment that he was prone to sin, or that if he had acted out his natural character he would have indulged in sin - perhaps such sins as had been charged upon him. But he here says that, with this natural proneness to sin, he had restrained himself, and had not been deserving of the treatment which he had received. This is one of those incidental remarks which often occur in the Scriptures which recognize the doctrine of depravity, or the fact that the heart, even when most restrained, is by nature inclined to sin. If this psalm was composed in the latter part of the life of David (see the introduction), then this must mean either
(a) that in the review of his life he felt it had been his general and habitual aim to check his natural inclination to sin; or
(b) that at the particular periods referred to in the psalm, when God had so wonderfully interposed in his behalf, he felt that this had been his aim, and that he might now regard that as a reason why God had interposed in his behalf.
It is, however, painfully certain that at some periods of his life - as in the matter of Uriah - he did give indulgence to some of the most corrupt inclinations of the human heart, and that, in acting out these corrupt propensities, he was guilty of crimes which have forever dimmed the luster of his name and stained his memory. These painful facts, however, are not inconsistent with the statement that in his general character he did restrain these corrupt propensities, and did “keep himself from his iniquity” So, in the review of our own lives, if we are truly the friends of God, while we may be painfully conscious that we have often given indulgence to the corrupt propensities of our natures - over which, if we are truly the children of God, we shall have repented - we may still find evidence that, as the great and habitual rule of life, we have restrained those passions, and have “kept ourselves” from the particular forms of sin to which our hearts were prone.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 18:23. I was also upright — The times in which David was most afflicted were the times of his greatest uprightness. Adversity was always to him a time of spiritual prosperity.
Mine iniquity. — Probably meaning what is generally termed the easily-besetting sin; the sin of his constitution, or that to which the temperament of his body most powerfully disposed him. What this was, is a subject of useless conjecture.
