Psalms 18:23

²¹  For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

²²  For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

²³  I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

²⁴  Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

²⁵  With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;