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UntoHim · 12-30-2021, 12:05 PM

Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful - C.S. Lewis
I've seen many quotes comparing/contrasting Truth and Love and Truth and Grace, but rarely Mercy and Justice. We worship and serve a God who is graceful and merciful, yet he is also a God of justice and righteousness. This notion brings a whole new light to "be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect"(Matt 5:48). In recent years, I have taken "perfect" (Gk τέλειός ) here to have the meaning and implication of "complete". A better translation here might be "be perfectly complete as your heavenly Father is perfectly complete". If we as God's people only exemplify and show forth God's grace and mercy without also exemplifying and showing forth his justice and righteousness, we are incomplete, we are imperfect.
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12-30-2021, 12:05 PM	#133
UntoHim Οὕτως γὰρ ἠγάπησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν κόσμον For God So Loved The World Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 3,824	Re: Quotes and Quips *Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful - C.S. Lewis* I've seen many quotes comparing/contrasting Truth and Love and Truth and Grace, but rarely Mercy and Justice. We worship and serve a God who is graceful and merciful, yet he is also a God of justice and righteousness. This notion brings a whole new light to "be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect"(Matt 5:48). In recent years, I have taken "perfect" (Gk τέλειός ) here to have the meaning and implication of "complete". A better translation here might be "be perfectly complete as your heavenly Father is perfectly complete". If we as God's people only exemplify and show forth God's grace and mercy without also exemplifying and showing forth his justice and righteousness, we are incomplete, we are imperfect. - __________________ αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων ἀμήν - 1 Peter 5:11