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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) To the faithful, you show yourself faithful.
⇔ ≈To the blameless, you show yourself blameless.

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT To the one who is faithful, you show yourself to be faithful;
⇔ to a man who is blameless, you show yourself to be blameless.

UST Yahweh, you are faithful to those who faithfully do your covenant; you always do what is good to those who do not do evil.

BSB ⇔ To the faithful You show Yourself faithful,
⇔ to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;

OEB ⇔ With the loyal you are loyal,
⇔ and with the blameless blameless.

WEBBE With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
⇔ With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET You prove to be loyal to one who is faithful;
⇔ you prove to be trustworthy to one who is innocent.

LSV With the kind You show Yourself kind,
With a perfect man You show Yourself perfect.

FBV You show trust to those who trust; you show integrity to those with integrity,[fn]

18:25 The word used here means “complete” or “sound.”

T4T ⇔ Yahweh, you are faithful to those who faithfully do what you tell them to do;
⇔ you always do what is good/right to those who do what you want them to do.

LEB • To the loyal you show yourself loyal. To the blameless you show yourself blameless.

BBE On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;

Moff To the kind thou provest kind,
⇔ and true to the true,

JPS (18-26) With the merciful Thou dost show Thyself merciful, with the upright man Thou dost show Thyself upright;

ASV With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful;
⇔ With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;

DRA No DRA PSA 18:25 verse available

YLT With the kind Thou showest Thyself kind, With a perfect man showest Thyself perfect.

Drby With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; with the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;

RV With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with the perfect man thou wilt shew thyself perfect;

Wbstr With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt show thyself upright;

KJB-1769 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
(With the merciful thou/you wilt/will show thyself/yourself merciful; with an upright man thou/you wilt/will show thyself/yourself upright; )

KJB-1611 With the mercifull thou wilt shew thy selfe mercifull, with an vpright man thou wilt shew thy selfe vpright.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps With the holy thou wylt be holy: with a perfect man thou wylt be perfect.
(With the holy thou/you wilt/will be holy: with a perfect man thou/you wilt/will be perfect.)

Gnva With the godly thou wilt shewe thy selfe godly: with the vpright man thou wilt shew thy selfe vpright.
(With the godly thou/you wilt/will show thyself/yourself godly: with the upright man thou/you wilt/will show thyself/yourself upright. )

Cvdl With the holy thou shalt be holy, & wt ye innocet thou shalt be innocet.
(With the holy thou/you shalt be holy, and with ye/you_all innocent thou/you shalt be innocent.)

Wycl No Wycl PSA 18:25 verse available

Luth Darum vergilt mir der HErr nach meiner Gerechtigkeit, nach der Reinigkeit meiner Hände vor seinen Augen.
(Therefore repaid to_me the/of_the LORD after mine justice, after the/of_the Reinigkeit mine hands before/in_front_of his Augen.)

ClVg No ClVg PSA 18:25 verse available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

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(Some words not found in UHB: and,repaid YHWH to=me according_to,righteousness_of,my according_to,cleanness_of hands_of,my in,before sight_of,his )

General Information:

The writer speaks to Yahweh.

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

To the one who is faithful

(Some words not found in UHB: and,repaid YHWH to=me according_to,righteousness_of,my according_to,cleanness_of hands_of,my in,before sight_of,his )

Here “faithful” means to do what God commands one to do. You can state this clearly. Alternate translation: “to those who faithfully obey your commandments” or “to those who faithfully do your covenant”

Parallel PSA 18:25

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