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Romans 10:9-10If you use your mouth to say,

"Jesus is Lord," and if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you will be saved. We believe with our hearts, and so we are made right with God. And we use our mouths to say that we believe, and so we are saved. (NCV)

Ephesians 2:8-9

It is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. (NIV)

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Books on Divine Justice

When Helping Hurts Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert

Generous Justice Timothy Keller

Evil and the Justice of God NT Wright

Exodus 18:10-11"Praise the Lord," Jethro said,

"for he has rescued you from the Egyptians and from Pharaoh. Yes, he has rescued Israel from the powerful hand of Egypt! I know now that the Lord is greater than all other gods, because he rescued his people from the oppression of the proud Egyptians." (NLT)

Exodus 33:18-19Then Moses said, "Now show me

your glory." And the Lord said, "I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. (NIV)

Micah 6:8

He has showed you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (NIV)

Walk Humbly

Numbers 12:3

Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth. (NIV)

To Act Justly and To Love Mercy

Mercy = chesedh

God’s unconditional grace and compassion

Justice = mishpat

To treat people equitably

Tim Keller Generous Justice

“To walk with God we must do justice out of merciful

love.”

Leviticus 24:22

You are to have the same law (rule of law = mishpat) for the alien and the native-born. I am the Lord your God. (NIV)

Proverbs 31:9

Speak up for the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice. (TLB)

Zechariah 7:9-10

This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'Administer true justice (mishpat); show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. (NIV)

Proverbs 31:8

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. (NIV)

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Matthew 18:4

Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (NIV)

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