‘Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;
Thou hast borne away the iniquity of Thy people, Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
and lo, they were bringing to him a paralytic, laid upon a couch, and Jesus having seen their faith, said to the paralytic, ‘Be of good courage, child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.’
even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works: