3 Bible Verses about Conversion, nature of

Beloved, I beseech you, as sojourners and travelers, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. Have your behavior comely, among the Gentiles, that, whereas, they speak against you, as evil doers, having beheld your good works, they may glorify God, in the day of visitation.

Behold how great love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this reason, 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 purchased people; that you should declare the perfections of him who has called you from darkness into his marvelous light: who formerly were not a people, but now are a people of God; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.