WHO HAS THE POWER TO FORGIVE SINS

“Then the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.  And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, ‘The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’ children to the third and the fourth generation.’”                            Exodus 34:6,7  * “The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.”                          Numbers 14:18  * “For which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you’, or to say, ‘Arise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins - then He said to the paralytic, ‘Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.’”  Matthew 9:5,6  * “Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’?  But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins - He said to the paralytic, ‘I say to you, arise, take up you bed, and go your way to your house.’  And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God saying, ‘We never saw anything like this.’” Mark 2:9-12  * “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, ‘Behold!  The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.’”  John 1:29 “For all have sinned and fall sort of the glory of God.”  Romans 3:23  * “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  Romans 6:23  * *  New King James Version