Mark 2:5

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And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to him, Son, you have forgiveness for your sins.

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  • Matt 9:2 : 2 And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins.
  • Matt 9:22 : 22 But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Daughter, take heart; your faith has made you well. And the woman was made well from that hour.
  • John 5:14 : 14 After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.
  • Jas 5:15 : 15 And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.
  • Jas 2:18-22 : 18 But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works. 19 You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear. 20 Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use? 21 Was not the righteousness of Abraham our father judged by his works, when he made an offering of Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that his faith was helping his works and was made complete by them;
  • Mark 2:9-9 : 9 Which is the simpler, to say to a man who is ill, You have forgiveness for your sins, or, Get up, take up your bed, and go? 10 But so that you may see that the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins on earth, (he said to the man,)
  • Mark 5:34 : 34 And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be free from your disease.
  • Luke 5:20 : 20 And seeing their faith he said, Man, you have forgiveness for your sins.
  • Luke 7:47-50 : 47 And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love. 48 And he said to her, You have forgiveness for your sins. 49 And those who were seated at table with him said to themselves, Who is this who even gives forgiveness of sins? 50 And he said to the woman, By your faith you have salvation; go in peace.
  • Luke 8:48 : 48 And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.
  • Acts 14:9 : 9 This man was giving ear to the preaching of Paul, who, looking at him, and seeing that he had faith to be made well,
  • 1 Cor 11:30 : 30 For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.
  • 2 Cor 2:10 : 10 But if you give forgiveness to anyone, I do the same: for if I have given forgiveness for anything, I have done it because of you, in the person of Christ;
  • Eph 2:8 : 8 Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:
  • Col 3:13 : 13 Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:
  • 1 Thess 1:3-4 : 3 Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; 4 Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;
  • Gen 22:12 : 12 And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.
  • Job 33:17-26 : 17 In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him; 18 To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction. 19 Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones; 20 He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat; 21 His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ... 22 And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death. 23 If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him; 24 And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life: 25 Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength; 26 He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;
  • Ps 32:1-5 : 1 <Of David. Maschil.> Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered. 2 Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day. 4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.) 5 I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath. 8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face. 9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.
  • Ps 103:3 : 3 He has forgiveness for all your sins; he takes away all your diseases;
  • Isa 38:17 : 17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
  • Isa 53:11 : 11 ... made clear his righteousness before men ... had taken their sins on himself.
  • John 2:25 : 25 He had no need for any witness about man; for he himself had knowledge of what was in man.
  • Acts 5:31 : 31 Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.
  • Acts 11:23 : 23 Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 9:1-8
    8 verses
    93%

    1 And he got into a boat and went across and came to his town.

    2 And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins.

    3 And some of the scribes said among themselves, This man has no respect for God.

    4 And Jesus, having knowledge of what was in their minds, said, Why are your thoughts evil?

    5 For which is the simpler, to say, You have forgiveness for your sins; or to say, Get up and go?

    6 But so that you may see that on earth the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins, (then said he to the man who was ill,) Get up, and take up your bed, and go to your house.

    7 And he got up and went away to his house.

    8 But when the people saw it they were full of fear, and gave glory to God who had given such authority to men.

  • Luke 5:18-25
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    91%

    18 And some men had with them, on a bed, a man who was ill, without power of moving; and they made attempts to get him in and put him before Jesus.

    19 And because of the mass of people, there was no way to get him in; so they went up on the top of the house and let him down through the roof, on his bed, into the middle in front of Jesus.

    20 And seeing their faith he said, Man, you have forgiveness for your sins.

    21 And the scribes and Pharisees were having an argument, saying, Who is this, who has no respect for God? who is able to give forgiveness for sins, but God only?

    22 But Jesus, who had knowledge of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

    23 Which is the simpler: to say, You have forgiveness for your sins; or to say, Get up and go?

    24 But so that you may see that on earth the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins, (he said to the man who was ill,) I say to you, Get up, and take up your bed, and go into your house.

    25 And straight away he got up before them, and took up his bed and went away to his house giving praise to God.

  • Mark 2:6-12
    7 verses
    89%

    6 But there were certain of the scribes seated there, and reasoning in their hearts,

    7 Why does this man say such things? he has no respect for God: from whom does forgiveness come but from God only?

    8 And Jesus, having knowledge in his spirit of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

    9 Which is the simpler, to say to a man who is ill, You have forgiveness for your sins, or, Get up, take up your bed, and go?

    10 But so that you may see that the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins on earth, (he said to the man,)

    11 I say to you, Get up, take up your bed, and go to your house.

    12 And he got up, and straight away took up the bed and went out before them all, so that they were all full of wonder, and gave glory to God, saying, We have never seen anything like this.

  • Mark 2:3-4
    2 verses
    85%

    3 And four men came to him with one on a bed who had no power of moving.

    4 And when they were unable to get near him because of all the people, they got the roof uncovered where he was: and when it was broken up, they let down the bed on which the man was.

  • Luke 7:48-50
    3 verses
    77%

    48 And he said to her, You have forgiveness for your sins.

    49 And those who were seated at table with him said to themselves, Who is this who even gives forgiveness of sins?

    50 And he said to the woman, By your faith you have salvation; go in peace.

  • Matt 8:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6 Saying, Lord, my servant is ill in bed at the house, with no power in his body, and in great pain.

    7 And he said to him, I will come and make him well.

  • Luke 18:42
    75%

    42 And Jesus said, See again: your faith has made you well.

  • Luke 17:19
    75%

    19 And he said to him, Get up, and go on your way; your faith has made you well.

  • Jas 5:15
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    15 And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.

  • John 5:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 Jesus said to him, Get up, take your bed and go.

    9 And the man became well straight away, and took up his bed and went. Now that day was the Sabbath.

  • Mark 3:28
    74%

    28 Truly, I say to you, The sons of men will have forgiveness for all their sins and for all the evil words they say:

  • Mark 10:52
    72%

    52 And Jesus said to him, Go on your way; your faith has made you well. And straight away he was able to see, and went after him in the way.

  • Matt 9:29
    72%

    29 Then he put his hand on their eyes, saying, As your faith is, let it be done to you.

  • Matt 8:17
    72%

    17 So that the word of Isaiah the prophet might come true: He himself took our pains and our diseases.

  • Matt 14:14
    72%

    14 And he came out and saw a great number of people and he had pity on them, and made well those of them who were ill.

  • Matt 4:24
    72%

    24 And news of him went out through all Syria; and they took to him all who were ill with different diseases and pains, those having evil spirits and those who were off their heads, and those who had no power of moving. And he made them well.

  • Rom 4:7
    72%

    7 Happy are those who have forgiveness for their wrongdoing, and whose sins are covered.

  • Mark 1:41
    72%

    41 And being moved with pity, he put out his hand, and touching him said to him, It is my pleasure; be made clean.

  • John 20:23
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    23 Any to whom you give forgiveness, will be made free from their sins; and any from whom you keep back forgiveness, will still be in their sins.

  • Acts 14:9
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    9 This man was giving ear to the preaching of Paul, who, looking at him, and seeing that he had faith to be made well,

  • Matt 15:30
    71%

    30 And there came to him great numbers of people having with them those who were broken in body, or blind, or without voice, or wounded, or ill in any way, and a number of others; they put them down at his feet and he made them well:

  • John 5:14
    71%

    14 After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.

  • Acts 3:16
    71%

    16 And his name, through faith in his name, has made this man strong, whom you see and have knowledge of: yes, the faith which is through him has made him well, before you all.

  • John 5:11-12
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    71%

    11 He said to them, But he who made me well, said to me, Take up your bed and go.

    12 Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?