Lexicon :: Strong's G268 - hamartōlos

While he was reclining at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came to eat with Jesus and his disciples.

“Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”[fn]

“The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! ’ Yet wisdom is vindicated[fn] by her deeds.”[fn]

Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? See, the time is near. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

While he was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating[fn] with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who were following him.

“For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Then he came a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The time has come. See, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’s knees and said, “Go away from me, because I’m a sinful man, Lord! ”

But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? ”

“I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

“The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! ’

And a woman in the town who was a sinner found out that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house. She brought an alabaster jar of perfume

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him ​— ​she’s a sinner! ”

And he[fn] responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered these things?

All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to him.

“I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who don’t need repentance.

“I tell you, in the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”

“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, have mercy on me,[fn] a sinner! ’

All who saw it began to complain, “He’s gone to stay with a sinful man.”

“saying, ‘It is necessary that the Son of Man be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, be crucified, and rise on the third day’? ”

Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs? ” And there was a division among them.

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

“We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will, he listens to him.

But if by my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?

But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

We are Jews by birth and not “Gentile sinners,”

But if we ourselves are also found to be “sinners” while seeking to be justified by Christ, is Christ then a promoter[fn] of sin? Absolutely not!

We know that the law is not meant for a righteous person, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and irreverent, for those who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” ​— ​and I am the worst of them.

For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

For consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you won’t grow weary and give up.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

let that person know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.

And if a righteous person is saved with difficulty,

what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?

“to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly concerning all the ungodly acts that they have done in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things ungodly sinners have said against him.”