Our text has nothing to do with salvation matters, but enunciates a principle pertaining to the governmental ways of God, by which we reap what we sow and have measured again to us according as we have meted out to others (Matt. 7:2). “He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour” (Prov. 21:21). “For they shall obtain mercy.” First, there is an inward benefit. The one who shows mercy to others gains thereby: “the merciful man doeth good to his own soul” (Prov.
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