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A way I have heard of distinguishing them which I like is that grace is God's favor to the guilty, whereas mercy is His favor to the miserable. Another way (and one of these is from Geoff Thomas, but I'm not sure which one) is that mercy is God's favor to the undeserving, whereas grace is His favor to the ill-deserving.
But I would be surprised if you could consistently bear out either of those distinctions in a Scripture-wide word-study.
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