Mark 2:7
Greek Text— Mark 2:7“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
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For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”
“I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”
“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.
The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
I myself am Yahweh. Besides me, there is no savior.
In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none; also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.
But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”
Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
I don’t do this for your sake,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Let it be known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.”
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,
The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught.
But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.
Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”
For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”
who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”
“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.
None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.
None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.
He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the middle of their pasture; they will swarm with people.
and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.”
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.
we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.
You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?” They all condemned him to be worthy of death.
The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”
When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’
We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man blasphemes.”
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins-” (then he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house.”
Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.
The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”
The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”
The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them and withdrew apart to a desert region of a city called Bethsaida.