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20The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
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He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-28)Here, I. David reflects with comfort upon his own integrity, and rejoices in the testimony of his conscience that he had had his conversation in godly sincerity and not with fleshly wisdom, 2 Cor. 1:12. His deliverances were an evidence of this, and this was the great comfort of his deliverances. His enemies had misrepresented him, and perhaps, when his troubles continued long, he began to suspect…
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