I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
David's words are his own testimony that he was upright before God and that he carefully kept himself back from his own iniquity and wrongdoing. They express both integrity in God's sight and deliberate effort to refrain from sin.
They belong to a song composed while Saul was pursuing David to kill him. That was a time of severe trials and danger, when David trusted God, praised Him for deliverance, and was repeatedly preserved. The claim of uprightness describes that earlier period of David's life, when he served God with integrity and purity of heart.
Together with keeping the way of the Lord and not departing from His judgments and statutes, this uprightness was the cleanness of life for which the Lord recompensed him.
David's words are his own testimony that he was upright before God and that he carefully kept himself back from his own iniquity and wrongdoing. They express both integrity in God's sight and deliberate effort to refrain from sin.
They belong to a song composed while Saul was pursuing David to kill him. That was a time of severe trials and danger, when David trusted God, praised Him for deliverance, and was repeatedly preserved. The claim of uprightness describes that earlier period of David's life, when he served God with integrity and purity of heart.
Together with keeping the way of the Lord and not departing from His judgments and statutes, this uprightness was the cleanness of life for which the Lord recompensed him.