Mercy and truth are met together

Daily Light Devotions - May 6 - Morning

Mercy and truth are met together ...

Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other. 1

Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me. 2

The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious. 3

that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 4

whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 5

But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. 6

Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 7

And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, 8
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1 Psa 85:10;
2 Isa 45:21;
3 Isa 42:21;
4 2 Cor 5:19;
5 Rom 3:25,26;
6 Isa 53:5;
7 Rom 8:33;
8 Rom 4:5