God bless you, today we want to present you with a list of Bible Verses on Conversion. God is good and wants all of his creation to be saved, but he loves us so much that he has given us the opportunity to choose whether we want that eternal life in his kingdom or to reject him. We hope that these verses of repentance and conversion will be of great use to you, and they will also serve as examples of conversion in the Bible.
Bible Verses on Conversion
2 Chronicles 7:14 | NIV
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 30:9b | NIV
For the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.
Colossians 3:5 | NIV
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
2 Peter 3:9 | NIV
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
Ezekiel 18:32 | NIV
For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!
Acts 3:19 | NIV
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.
Joel 2:13 | NIV
Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and he relents from sending calamity.
Acts 2:38 | NIV
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Matthew 3:8 | NIV
Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
Matthew 4:17 | NIV
From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Luke 15:7 | NIV
I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
James 1:21 | NIV
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
Luke 5:32 | NIV
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Isaiah 44:22 | NIV
I have swept away your offenses like a cloud,
your sins like the morning mist.
Return to me,
for I have redeemed you.
Joel 2:12 | NIV
“Even now,” declares the Lord,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
Bible verses about the change of life
Mark 1:15 | NIV
“The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
Revelation 3:19 | NIV
Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
Acts 17:30 | NIV
In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
Isaiah 55:7 | NIV
Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Zechariah 1:3b | NIV
‘Return to me,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the Lord Almighty.
Galatians 6:1 | NIV
Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
Romans 6:13 | NIV
Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
Ezekiel 18:30b | NIV
Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall.
Ezekiel 18:21 | NIV
But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.
Luke 15:10 | NIV
In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
Zechariah 1:4 | NIV
Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
1 Corinthians 15:34 | NIV
Acts 19:4 | NIV
Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
Colossians 3:9-10 | NIV
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Proverbs 1:23 | NIV
Repent at my rebuke!
Then I will pour out my thoughts to you,
I will make known to you my teachings.
Luke 13:3 | NIV
I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
Jeremiah 7:5-7 | NIV
If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.
Acts 3:26 | NIV
When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.
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