And yet, I am the God who forgives your sins, and I do this because of who I am. I will not hold your sins against you.

There is no other god like you, O LORD; you forgive the sins of your people who have survived. You do not stay angry forever, but you take pleasure in showing us your constant love.

"How does he dare talk like this? This is blasphemy! God is the only one who can forgive sins!"

I will prove to you, then, that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins." So he said to the paralyzed man,

The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began to say to themselves, "Who is this man who speaks such blasphemy! God is the only one who can forgive sins!"

Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, in the same way the Son gives life to those he wants to.

so that all will honor the Son in the same way as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

I give them eternal life, and they shall never die. No one can snatch them away from me.

For you gave him authority over all people, so that he might give eternal life to all those you gave him.

Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, so I send you."

If you forgive people's sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."

God raised him to his right side as Leader and Savior, to give the people of Israel the opportunity to repent and have their sins forgiven.

They kept on stoning Stephen as he called out to the Lord, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

He knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, "Lord! Do not remember this sin against them!" He said this and died.

When you forgive people for what they have done, I forgive them too. For when I forgive---if, indeed, I need to forgive anything---I do it in Christ's presence because of you,

Here we are, then, speaking for Christ, as though God himself were making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ's behalf: let God change you from enemies into his friends!

Instead, be kind and tender-hearted to one another, and forgive one another, as God has forgiven you through Christ.

Be tolerant with one another and forgive one another whenever any of you has a complaint against someone else. You must forgive one another just as the Lord has forgiven you.

Is it easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'?

A woman there had an evil spirit that had kept her sick for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

He placed his hands on her, and at once she straightened herself up and praised God.

"Aeneas," Peter said to him, "Jesus Christ makes you well. Get up and make your bed." At once Aeneas got up.