But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins’ #– #then he told the paralytic, ‘Get up, take your stretcher, and go home.’
As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the Lord, with justice and courage, to proclaim to Jacob his rebellion and to Israel his sin.
The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in faithful love, forgiving iniquity and rebellion. But he will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generation.