“And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the Lord even more angry with Israel.

BOOK I

Psalms 1–41

Psalm 1

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.

Do not take away my soul along with sinners, my life with those who are bloodthirsty,

But all sinners will be destroyed; there will be no future for the wicked.

Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you.

But may sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Praise the Lord, my soul. Praise the Lord.

If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

Righteousness guards the person of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

Trouble pursues the sinner, but the righteous are rewarded with good things.

A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.

Saying 15

Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord.

To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will perish.

See, the day of the Lord is coming —a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger— to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.

The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: “Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”

All the sinners among my people will die by the sword, all those who say, ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’

While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples.

When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.”

Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour has come, and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners.