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Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
Psalms 18:20 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
  • BSB The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
  • NKJV The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.
  • NASB ¶The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.
  • NLT The Lord rewarded me for doing right; he restored me because of my innocence.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 16

  • Ps 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
  • 1 Cor 3:8Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
  • Ps 58:11so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”
  • Matt 6:4so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
  • Prov 11:18Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
  • Job 22:30He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
  • Ps 7:8Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
  • Heb 7:26For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
  • Ps 7:3Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
  • Isa 62:11Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.’”
  • Isa 49:4But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”
  • Ps 18:24Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
  • 1 Sam 24:19–20For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me today.
  • Ps 26:6I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
  • 1 Sam 24:11–13Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.
  • 1 Sam 24:17He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

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