We should have great joy because we are forgiven.

You are either infecting people with sin or infecting them with grace.

One life can change the world.

So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God--all because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us in making us friends of God.

Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, "Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you."

When Adam sinned, sin entered the entire human race. Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.

Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. And though there was no law to break, since it had not yet been given,

And what a difference between our sin and God's generous gift of forgiveness. For this one man, Adam, brought death to many through his sin. But this other man, Jesus Christ, brought forgiveness to many through God's bountiful gift.

If we say we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and refusing to accept the truth.

6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,