Genesis 12:1-9 and Matthew 9:1-8 (NIV)

Genesis 12:1-9
1  The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2  “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3  I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth
   will be blessed through you.”
4  So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
5  He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
6  Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
7  The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
8  From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.
9  Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

Matthew 9:1-8

1  Jesus stepped into a boat, crossed over and came to his own town. 

2  Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.” 

3  At this, some of the teachers of the law said to themselves, “This fellow is blaspheming!” 

4  Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? 

5  Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 

6  But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.” 

7  Then the man got up and went home. 

8  When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to man.