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Recompense

The Brown, Driver, Briggs Lexicon gives these
additional meanings to the root םלש: requite,
recompense, reward. In other words, payment
made for actions, or deeds done, makes that
person whole, having received his or her due.
1 Sam. 24:19 For if a man find his enemy, will
he let him go well away? wherefore the Lord
reward [םלש] thee good for that thou hast done
unto me this day.
Ruth 2:12 The Lord recompense [םלש] thy
work, and a full [םלש] reward be given thee
of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings
thou art come to trust.
Prov. 11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be
recompensed [םלש] in the earth: much more
the wicked and the sinner.
These are only a few of the many Scriptures
showing the character of God in the principle
of restoration to wholeness
We do not find the church, the body
of Christ, in the Old Testament; the New
Testament says that it was a mystery hidden
in God throughout that time. However, we do
find in the Old Testament the character of God
revealed for all time and eternity to everyone.
It is written that He does not change.

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