Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Because I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not forsaken my God, as the wicked doth. {TYNDALE: For I kept the ways of the LORD, and did no wickedness, forsaking my God.}
New American Standard Bible
And have
King James Version
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Holman Bible
and have not turned from my God to wickedness.
International Standard Version
because I have kept the ways of the LORD, and I have not wickedly departed from my God;
A Conservative Version
For I have kept the ways of LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
American Standard Version
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
Amplified
For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.
Bible in Basic English
For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.
Darby Translation
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Julia Smith Translation
For I watched the ways of Jehovah, and I acted not wickedly from my God.
King James 2000
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Because I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not acted wickedly against my God,
Modern King James verseion
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
NET Bible
For I have obeyed the Lord's commands; I have not rebelled against my God.
New Heart English Bible
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
The Emphasized Bible
For I had kept the ways of Yahweh, and not broken away from my God;
Webster
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
World English Bible
For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Youngs Literal Translation
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not done wickedly against my God.
References
American
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
20 The LORD shall reward me after my righteous dealing; according to the cleanness of my hands shall he recompense me, {TYNDALE: The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness, and according to the pureness of my hands he dealt with me.} 21 Because I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not forsaken my God, as the wicked doth. {TYNDALE: For I kept the ways of the LORD, and did no wickedness, forsaking my God.} 22 For I have an eye unto all his laws, and will not cast out his commandments from me. {TYNDALE: But I had all his laws in my sight, and I turned my face from none of his ordinances.}
Cross References
Psalm 119:102
I shrink not from thy judgments, for thou teachest me.
1 Samuel 15:11
"It repenteth me that I have made Saul king. For he is turned from me and hath not performed my commandments." Wherefore Samuel was evil apaid and cried unto the LORD all night.
2 Chronicles 34:33
And Josiah put away all manner of abominations out of all lands that pertained to the children of Israel, and brought all that were found in Israel, to serve the LORD their God. And they turned not aside from after the LORD God of their fathers as long as he lived.
Psalm 17:4
Because of men's works that are done against the words of thy lips, I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer.
Psalm 26:1
{A Psalm of David} Be thou my Judge, O LORD, for I walk innocently. My trust hath been also in the LORD; therefore shall I not fall.
Psalm 119:10-11
With my whole heart do I seek thee; O let me not go wrong out of thy commandments.
Proverbs 8:32
"Therefore hearken unto me, O ye children, for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Acts 24:16
And therefore study I to have a clear conscience toward God, and toward man also.
1 Thessalonians 2:10
Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
1 John 2:19
They went out of us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. But that fortuned, that it might appear that they were not of us.