Psalm 18:20 {17:21}
Good News Translation
The LORD rewards me because I do what is right; he blesses me because I am innocent.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

Contemporary English Version
You are good to me, LORD, because I do right, and you reward me because I am innocent.

New American Bible
The LORD acknowledged my righteousness, rewarded my clean hands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:

rewarded

Psalm 58:11 And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.

1 Samuel 24:17,20 And he said to David: Thou art more just than I: for thou hast done good to me, and I have rewarded thee with evil. . . .

Proverbs 11:18 Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.

Isaiah 49:4 And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength without cause and in vain: therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.

Isaiah 62:11 Behold the Lord hath made it to be heard in the ends of the earth, tell the daughter of Sion: Behold thy Saviour cometh: behold his reward is with him, and his work before him.

Matthew 6:4 That thy alms may be in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee.

1 Corinthians 3:5 The ministers of him whom you have believed: and to every one as the Lord hath given.

cleanness

Psalm 18:24 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

Psalm 7:3 O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands:

Psalm 24:4 The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:

1 Samuel 24:11-13 Moreover, see and know, O my father, the hem of thy robe in my hand, that when I cut off the hem of thy robe, I would not put out my hand against thee. Reflect, and see, that there is no evil in my hand, nor iniquity, neither have I sinned against thee: but thou liest in wait for my life, to take it away. . . .

Hebrews 7:26 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

Context
The LORD is My Rock
19And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me. 20And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:21Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:19
For who when he hath found his enemy, will let him go well away? But the Lord reward thee for this good turn, for what thou hast done to me this day.

1 Samuel 26:23
And the Lord will reward every one according to his justice, and his faithfulness: for the Lord hath delivered thee this day into my hand, and I would not put forth my hand against the Lord's anointed.

Job 22:30
The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.

Job 33:26
He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.

Psalm 7:8
The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice, and according to my innocence in me.

Psalm 18:24
And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

Psalm 24:4
The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

Psalm 58:11
And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.

Ezekiel 18:22
I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done: in his justice which he hath wrought, he shall live.

Psalm 18:19
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