Psalms 18:21

"The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me."

Key Reflection

This verse suggests that God's rewards are directly proportional to one’s faithfulness and moral purity. The psalmist asserts that his righteousness and integrity have earned divine protection and deliverance, indicating a close alignment between personal virtue and spiritual blessings.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For I have kept the ways of the Lord -I have obeyed his laws. I have not so violated the laws which God has given to regulate my conduct with my fellow-men as to deserve to be treated by them as a guilty man. And have not wickedly departed from my God - “I have not been a sinner from my God;” an apostate; an open violator of his law. The treatment which I have received, though it would be justly rendered to an open violator of law, is not that which I have merited from the hand of man.

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