31 Bible Verses about Conversion, nature of

he shall convert many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. and he shall march before him, in the spirit and power of Elias, to reconcile parents and children together, and the unruly to the practice of justice, that the people may be duly dispos'd to receive the Lord.

but as for thee, I have pray'd that you faith may not fail. do you in return establish thy brethren.

My brethren, when any of you deviates from the truth, whoever sets him right, may be assured, that the retrieving of a sinner from his erroneous habits, is saving a soul from ruin, and cancels a multitude of sins.

cry'd out, "sirs, what are you going to do? we are but men as well as you, and we exhort you to renounce these vanities, and turn to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth and the sea, and all that they contain:

how successful our arrival was among you, and how you renounc'd your idols to serve the living and true God, and to expect his son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivers us from impending ruin.

repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence of the Lord, who shall send Jesus Christ,

first I warn'd the people of Damascus, of Jerusalem, of all Judea, and then the Gentiles, to repent, and turn to God, by acting suitably to their repentance.

and as the divine assistance accompany'd them, a great number of persons believed and became converts.

therefore, if any man be a christian, he is in a new creation: the old state of things is chang'd to one entirely new.

and be not conformed to the present age: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may perceive what God requires of you is good, and acceptable, and perfect.

but as we lay aside the veil, the divine light gradually informs the mind, according as we attend to that spiritual sense, which points out the Lord.

but far be it from me that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is as contemptible to me, as I am to the world. for in the dispensation of Jesus Christ, neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but the new creation.

don't you know that when we were all baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, we were plunged into a state figurative of his death. therefore we are buried with him by being plunged into a sort of death: that as Christ was raised up from the dead into a state of glory with the father, even so we also should proceed to a new state of life.

which were buried (as Christ was) in your baptism, by virtue of which you rise (as he did) to a new life, through a belief of that divine power, which raised him from the dead.

If then you are risen with Christ, seek the things, that are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. let the things above, and not such worldly matters be the object of your thoughts. for you are dead to them, and Christ has secured your life with God.

and said, I declare to you, except ye lay aside your ambition, and become as children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of the Messias. he therefore who shall become as void of ambition as this child, he shall be greatest in the kingdom of the Messiah.

but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof.

I therefore the prisoner for the Lord, beseech you to live suitably to the offers that have been made to you:

you were heretofore altogether in the dark, but now being enlightned by the Lord, behave as children of light: for the natural effect of light, is universal benevolence, justice, and truth: consider what is acceptable to the Lord;read more.
and be not accomplices in the fruitless practices of vice; on the contrary, condemn them.

but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your souls. Let your behaviour among the Gentiles be virtuous, that instead of inveighing against you as vicious, they may observe your honest behaviour,

so that thou art no longer a bond servant, but a son: and if a son, then an heir of God thro' Christ.

for you are all the sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus. for as many of you as have been baptized into christianity, have been invested as christians. there is now no distinction of Jew or Greek, of bond or free, of male or female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.read more.
and if you belong to Christ, you are Abraham's offspring, and his heirs by virtue of the promise.

Consider what proof the father has given us of his love, in allowing us to be called the sons of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it knew him not.

and this they were destin'd to. but you are the chosen race, you are kings and priests, the holy nation, the peculiar people, that you might display his glory, who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: you, who formerly were not a people, but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy,

nevertheless, when Moses is read, the veil upon their mind continues unto this day: but when their mind shall turn to the Lord, that veil too shall be taken away.

they shall no longer instruct every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

no man can come to me, except the father who hath sent me, conduct him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

it was not you that chose me, but I that chose you, and establish'd you, that your travels may be fruitful, and your fruit be lasting: so that whatever ye shall ask of the father for my sake, he will give it you.

that at that time ye were without all knowledge of the Messiah, being aliens from the common-wealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and living in the world without any true knowledge of God. but now you who were formerly at a distance, are brought near by the death of Christ Jesus.

every thing that is valuable, every gift that leads to perfection is deriv'd from heaven, it descends from that original light, which knows no change, no shadow, or decline: 'tis he that has voluntarily renew'd us by the oracles of truth, that we might be the first converts of the new creation.

Jesus answered him, I declare unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus replied, how can a man be born when he is old? can he enter into his mother, and be born a second time? Jesus answered, I tell thee, except a man be renewed by the spiritual baptism, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.read more.
the cleansing of the body is only external, but the purification of the spirit is spiritual.