6By lovingkindness and truth iniquity is atoned for, And by the fear of the LORD one keeps away from evil.
With unimaginable kindness, mercy, and perfect truth, God accepted Christ's atonement for our sin. To be fair, God should have destroyed Adam in the garden. Yet God showed mercy on Adam, and all of us, by providing a solution, even from the very beginning, to fulfill His justice and still provide mercy. The word lovingkindness is an older word, but I love the way it sort of personifies kindness and presents it as actively loving. How like the Father who is actively loving. He is a God continually involved in the lives of His creation.
As a result of fearing God's power to judge and execute, the saved one departs from evil. Evil here can be construed to be the ultimate evil of eternal death. But I see hope for myself to avoid practicing evil on earth by remembering the righteous wrath of God.
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