“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
You forgave the iniquity of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah
And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.”
just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works: