World English Bible
Mark 2:9
“Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?”
Verse in context — Mark 2
7
Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?
8
Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
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Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?
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But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"--he said to the paralytic--
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I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.
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