30 Bible Verses about Conversion, nature of

And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord, their God. And he will go before Him in the spirit and Power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient unto the understanding of the righteous, to prepare a people made ready for the Lord.

but I prayed for you, that your faith may not fail you: and thou, when having turned, strengthen thy brethren:

My brethren, if any one among you may err from the truth, and one may turn him back; let him know, that the one having turned a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins.

Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of like suffering with you, preaching the gospel to you that you should turn from these vanities to the living God, who created the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things which are in them:

for they proclaim concerning what kind of reception we had unto you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the true and the living God, and to await his Son out of the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus the one delivering us from the wrath to come.

Repent, therefore, and turn, that your sins may be blotted out, in order that seasons of soul-renewing may come from the presence of the Lord,

but first to those in Damascus, and also in Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles, I was preaching that they should repent and turn to God, doing things worthy of repentance.

And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number having believed, turned to the Lord.

So if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, they have become new.

and he not fashioned after this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

But we all, with unveiled face beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

But it would be impossible for me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world: for neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

Whether do you not know, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death: in order that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so must we also walk in newness of life.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you are also raised by the faith of the operation of God, who raised him from the dead:

If then ye are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting on the right hand of God; think about those things above, and not things upon the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God:

and said, Truly I say unto you, unless you may be converted, and become as little children, you can not enter into the kingdom of the heavens. Therefore whosoever shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens;

But the fruit of the Spirit is divine love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, holiness; against such things there is no law. But those belonging to Christ Jesus have crucified carnality with the passions and lusts.

Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the calling with which you are called,

For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light, (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), proving what is acceptable to the Lord;read more.
and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather indeed convict them.

Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul; having your deportment beautiful among the Gentiles: in order that in whatsoever they calumniate you as evil doers, seeing from your beautiful works, they may glorify God in the day of his visitation.

For you are all the sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus; for so many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is no longer Jew nor Greek, nor bond nor free, nor male and female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.read more.
But if you belong to Christ then you are the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God; and we are. And on this account the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people unto conquest; in order that you may proclaim the virtues of the one having called you out of darkness unto his own marvelous light: who at one time were no people, but now you are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, lint just now having received mercy.

but until this day when Moses is read, the veil lies upon their heart: but when they may turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

And they shall no longer teach each one his neighbor, each one his brother, saying, Know ye the Lord: because all shall know me, from their small even unto the great.

No one is able to come unto me, unless the Father who sent me may draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.

You did not choose me, but I chose you, and placed you in your position, that you may go forth and bear fruit, and your fruit may abide: in order that He may give you whatsoever you may ask in my name.

because you were at that time without Christ, being alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and being atheists in the world. But now you are in Christ Jesus, who being at one time far off have been made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change. Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be some first fruit of his creations.

Jesus responded and said to him, Truly, truly, I say unto thee, unless any one may be born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus says to him; How is a man able to be born, being old? whether he is able to enter the second time into the womb of his mother, and be born? Jesus responded, Truly, truly, I say unto thee, Unless any one may be born of water and Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of the heavens.read more.
That which has been born of the flesh is flesh; and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.