“With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;”
The affirmation that with the merciful God shows Himself merciful and with the blameless God shows Himself blameless establishes divine reciprocity. The matching suggests that God responds to how humans approach Him. The merciful receiving mercy suggests that compassionate people find divine compassion. This verse establishes the principle of correspondence between human attitude and divine response.
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