7Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: …
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? …
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-12)Christ begins his sermon with blessings, for he came into the world to bless us (Acts 3:26), as the great High Priest of our profession ; as the blessed Melchizedec ; as He in whom all the families of the earth should be blessed , Gen. 12:3. He came not only to purchase blessings for us, but to pour out and pronounce blessings on us; and here he does it as one having authority , as one that can co…
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