'Sins' in the Bible
John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.
All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."
"Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" -- he said to the paralytic --
Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;
that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,