Psalms Chapter 18 verse 25 Holy Bible
With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;
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On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;
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With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; with the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;
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With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
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Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
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With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
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With the kind Thou showest Thyself kind, With a perfect man showest Thyself perfect.
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Psalms 18 : 25 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 25-28. - A short didactic digression is here interposed, extending the principles on which God has dealt with David and his enemies, to mankind generally (vers. 25-27); after which a return is made to Go&'s special dealings with David (ver. 28). Verse 25. - With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful. The main principle is that God will act towards men as they act towards him. If they are kindly, gracious, loving towards him - for this is what the word chasid means - he will be kindly, gracious, loving towards them, and vice versa, as explained in vers. 26, 27. With an upright man thou wilt show thyself upright; or, a perfect man (Revised Version). The word is the same as that used in Psalm 4:3; Psalm 12:1; Psalm 31:23; Psalm 34:6; Psalm 37:28, etc., and generally translated "godly," or, in the plural, "saints."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25-27) It is better to change all the futures into our present. We cannot explain this description of God's attitude to man, as if the poet were merely dealing with the conception of the Divine formed in the breast. No doubt his words are amply true in this sense. The human heart makes its God like itself, and to the pure and just He will be a pure and just God, to the cruel and unjust, cruel and unjust. But the definite mention of recompense in Psalm 18:24, and the reference to active interposition in behalf of the just in Psalm 18:27, leave us no option but to understand by "shew thyself" in Psalm 18:25-26, not an inward conception, but an external manifestation. It is, in fact, nothing more than a re-statement of the truth of which the history of Pharaoh is the most signal historic declaration, and which we maintain whenever we speak of the natural consequences of sin as retributive justice, the truth which is summed up in the text, "whatsoever a mau soweth that shall he also reap." We must at the same time remember that the form of the statement in the psalm is due to the view current in Israel before the development of the conception of Satanic agency, that all suggestions, evil as well as good, came from the mind of the Supreme Disposer of events.(25) Man.--The text of Samuel has "hero" (gebor instead of gebar).
