Sentences with phrase «mercy upon his creation»
God had mercy upon his creation and bestowed upon them a new salvation through His Word, that is, Christ, so that men might learn by experience that they can not» attain to incorruption of themselves, but by God's grace only.»
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However, through the mercy of God and to the praise of his glorious grace, the mystery of his purpose in Christ is upheld by the Son, who takes upon Himself the burden of healing and reintegrating our broken nature and vindicating the glory of God in creation.
They open up the possibility for God to be related to the creation, and in this instance at the level of human existence, in the light of the new occasion, by the responsiveness of God to that event and by his employment of that event to bestow upon his human children still further «graces and mercies».
A careful reading of the Greek text, says Stendahl, «must lead to the translation: «And as many as walk according to this standard [the new creation in Christ], peace be upon them — and mercy also upon the Israel of God.»