Which is easier, ¹  to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Stand up and walk’?

But ¹  those who were at the table ²  with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”

and repentance ¹  for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed ²  in his name to all nations, ³  beginning from Jerusalem. ⁴ 

Who among you can prove me guilty ¹  of any sin? ²  If I am telling you ³  the truth, why don’t you believe me?

Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this one ¹  forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

And now what are you waiting for? ¹  Get up, ²  be baptized, and have your sins washed away, ³  calling on his name.’ ⁴ 

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

For no one is declared righteous before him ¹  by the works of the law, ²  for through the law comes ³  the knowledge of sin.

Now the law came in ¹  so that the transgression ²  may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

So you too consider yourselves ¹  dead to sin, but ²  alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died. ¹ 

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin. ¹ 

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but ¹  the Spirit is your life ²  because of righteousness.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.

Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself ¹  so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed ²  the gospel of God to you free of charge?

But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages ¹  sin? Absolutely not!

The sins of some people are obvious, going before them into judgment, but for others, they show up later. ¹