Unmerited

All these may seem like positives for advancing our society, but sadly, leaving merit and ability out of the “reforms” delivers unmerited advancement of those with little or no ability and has a distinct negative outcome for them and society alike.

My wife, my children, my friends, all those providential events in my life that in retrospect were unmerited blessings from a generous God.

This unmerited overconfidence, they found, was interpreted by strangers as competence.

Grace is typically defined as unmerited favor given to humans by God.

If the beating he delivered was unmerited….

Infant baptism is seen as showing very clearly that salvation is an unmerited favour from God, not the fruit of human effort.

In Rome's military ethos, enemy soldiers who had surrendered or allowed their own capture and enslavement had been granted an unmerited gift of life.

Most Christians deny that entry into Heaven can be properly earned, rather it is a gift that is solely God's to give through his unmerited grace.