“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered.
You once favored, Lord, your land, restored the captives of Jacob.
And there people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.”
So also David declares the blessedness of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: