'Sinners' in the Bible

Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?

Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have done evil this time: the Lord is upright, and I and my people are sinners.

Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners.

And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We are sinners; do to us whatever seems good to you: only give us salvation this day.

And the Lord sent you on a journey and said, Go and put to the curse those sinners, the Amalekites, fighting against them till every one is dead.

And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, turning again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.

Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open, so that you may give ear to the prayer of your servant, which I make before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel, your servants, while I put before you the sins of the children of Israel, which we have done against you: truly, I and my father's people are sinners.

God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?

He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;

Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.

The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

The sinners are walking on every side, and evil is honoured among the children of men.

Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way.

I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;

Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

But as for the sinners, they will be cut off together; the end of the wrongdoers is destruction.

Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.

Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.

I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.

For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.

By him will all the horns of the sinners be cut off; but the horns of the upright will be lifted up.

How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.

Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?

You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

Let sinners be cut off from the earth, and let all evil-doers come to an end. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. Give praise to the Lord.

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

And a fire was lighted among their tents; the sinners were burned up by the flames.

I am burning with wrath, because of the sinners who have given up your law.

The sinners have been waiting for me to give me up to destruction; but I will give all my mind to your unchanging ward.

Sinners have put a net to take me; but I was true to your orders.

All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.

If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.

O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall.

The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

The Lord gives help to the poor in spirit; but he sends sinners down in shame.

My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

Blessings are on the head of the upright, but the face of sinners will be covered with sorrow.

When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.

The words of sinners are destruction for the upright; but the mouth of upright men is their salvation.

No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.

Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good.

The knees of the evil are bent before the good; and sinners go down in the dust at the doors of the upright.

The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.

The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;

Do not be troubled because of evil-doers, or have envy of sinners:

For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.

But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.

And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.

For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.

The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?

Keep this in mind and be shamed; let it come back to your memory, you sinners.

And they put his body into the earth with sinners, and his last resting-place was with the evil-doers, though he had done no wrong, and no deceit was in his mouth.

Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to an uncontrolled nation which has gone against me: they and their fathers have been sinners against me even to this very day.

We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:

And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.

And now, O Lord our God, who took your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and made a great name for yourself even to this day; we are sinners, we have done evil.

He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

All those sinners among my people will be put to the sword who say, Evil will not overtake us or come face to face with us.