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Mercy, Righteousness, and the Direction of Desire
Mercy blesses the merciful person while cruelty rebounds on the cruel. The passage keeps returning to moral direction—sowing righteousness tends toward life, pursuing evil tends toward death, and even desire itself is being trained toward either good or wrath.
Proverbs repeatedly contrasts sowing righteousness with pursuing evil and receiving the corresponding outcome; Galatians frames moral consequence as sowing and reaping.
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