`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: