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Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.
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A Plea for Mercy, Not Merit
Commentators unanimously explain that when the psalmist, as God's "servant," asks God to "deal bountifully," he is not asking for earned wages but pleading for generous, unmerited grace. Scholars like Calvin and Gill note this is a request for "free favor," recognizing that survival and spiritual life depend entirely on God's mercy, not human deserving.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Deal bountifully ... - This begins the next portion of the psalm, indicated by the letter Gimel (ג g), t…
19th Century
Anglican
GIMEL.
Deal bountifully ... that I may live. —Compare Psalm 13:3; Psalms 13:6;[Referen…
Baptist
Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
Does it require much grace, then, to keep a child of God ali…
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16th Century
Protestant
Do good to your servant. The term גמל gamal, which some render to requite, does not, among the Hebrews, imply mutual rec…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If God deals in strict justice with us, we all perish. We should spend our lives in His service; we will find true life in keeping His word. Those …
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