Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from 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.
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.
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.}
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 gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him. 21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God. 22 For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.
Cross References
Psalm 119:102
My heart has not been turned away from your decisions; for you have been my teacher.
1 Samuel 15:11
It is no longer my pleasure for Saul to be king; for he is turned back from going in my ways, and has not done my orders. And Samuel was very sad, crying to the Lord in prayer all night.
2 Chronicles 34:33
Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
Psalm 26:1
O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.
Psalm 119:10-11
I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.
Proverbs 8:32
Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.
Acts 24:16
And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.
1 Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;
1 John 2:19
They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.