Psalms 18:20

David says God rewarded him according to his righteousness and clean hands. It matters because it affirms that God honors genuine, though imperfect, covenant faithfulness.

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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