31 Bible Verses about Conversion, nature of

and many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not entirely fail; and when you recover yourself, confirm your brothers.

Brothers, if any one among you errs from the truth, and one converts him, let him know that he who converts a sinner from an error of [his] way, shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins.

and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We are also men subject to like sufferings with you, preaching that you should turn from these vain [services] to the living God, who made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things in them,

for they declare of us what introduction we had to you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Change your minds, therefore, and turn yourselves, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

but preached first to those at Damascus and Jerusalem, and in all the country of Judea, and to the gentiles, that they should change their minds and turn to God, performing works worthy of a change of mind.

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

So that if any one is in Christ he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

And we all with unvailed face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world. For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized in Christ were baptized in his death? We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you have also been raised together through the effectual faith of God who raised him from the dead;

IF you, therefore, have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God; employ your minds on things above, not on things on the earth. For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God;

and said, I tell you truly, that if you do not turn and become like little children, you can by no means enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this little child, shall be greatest in the kingdom of heaven;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law. And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.

I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the call with which you were called,

For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,??9 for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,??10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord, and be not partakers of the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the gentiles, that wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, from the good works which they see they may glorify God in the day of visitation,

So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, also an heir of God.

For you are all children of God by the faith in Jesus Christ; for as many of you as are baptized in Christ, have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.read more.
And if you are of Christ, then are you Abraham's children and heirs according to the promise.

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light; who formerly were not a people, but now are a people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

but to this day when Moses is read a vail lies upon their minds; but when they turn to the Lord the vail is taken away.

And they shall not teach every one his [fellow] citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me shall draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should continue, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.

that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the polity of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world; but now, in Christ Jesus you who were formerly far off have been made nigh by the blood of Christ.

All good giving, and every perfect gift, comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruit of his creatures.

Jesus answered and said to him, I tell you most truly, unless one has been born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he become an unborn infant of his mother a second time, and be born? Jesus answered, I tell you most truly, unless a man is born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.read more.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is a spirit.