mercy
30 subentries
- mercy. See also fairness; grace (God’s mercy)
- and justice (133:1sec)
- bear with erring brother (54:5.5)
- creature’s need wholly sufficient to insure God’s full m. (2:4.2,4)
- defined as
- applied love; inevitable offspring of goodness and love (2:4.4) (6:3.5)
- culmination of justice, fairness, and patience (28:6.8)
- divinity correlated in personality (0:1.17)
- expression of righteousness in attitude of love (10:6.18)
- God’s attitude of love for each individual (2:4sec) (12:7.1)
- justice tempered by wisdom and perfection of knowledge (2:3.2) (2:4.1)
- leading to perfection (140:3.16-17)
- quality of growth (28:6.8)
- saving interval between seedtime and harvest (54:4.6)
- season of grace before full ripening of evil (131:3.5)
- spiritual deliverance from anger, desire for selfish power or revenge (141:3.8)
- Eternal Son is m. (6:3.2,5) (8:4.2)
- evidence man is indwelt by God (26:11.5)
- extension of mercy to wrongdoer may work hardship on other family members (54:6.3-4)
- forgive 70 times 7 times (159:1.4-5,7)
- in doubt, Judges invariably rule in personal interests of individual (112:5.7-8)
- let decisions favor those in need (132:5.13)
- merciful shall obtain m. (140:3.9) (140:5.17) (146:2.5)
- m. credits always far in excess of ability to exhaust; of lavish proportions established to insure survival (28:6.5-7)
- m. ministry is always work of the individual (133:1.2)
- not thrust upon those who despise it; cast not pearls before swine (28:6.7) (140:3.18) (186:2.2)
- requires adjudication consonant with creature nature (39:1.8)
- show m. to those who abuse you (178:1.17)
- spiritual growth favored by refusal to presume on divine m. (100:1.8)
- time lag of m.; wisdom of delay (2:3.5) (54:4,5secs) (131:3.5)
- when m. exhausted, justice prevails (21:5.7) (28:6.7)
Cross-references
- See also fairness
- See also grace (God’s mercy)
Cited alongside
Headwords that cite the same paragraphs as this one, commonest first. The number is how many subentries each has.
- Jesus 796
- sin 80
- forgiveness 37
- judgment 50
- love 101
- God 201
- parts and the whole 14
- survival (of mortal death) 71