18 Bible Verses about Converts To Christianity

And when he was in Jerusalem at the paseha, in the festival, many believed in his name, beholding his signs which he did.

And many believed in him there.

Yet nevertheless also many of the rulers believed in him; but on account of the Pharisees they did not acknowledge, lest they should be excluded from the synagogue: For they loved the honour of men more than the honour of God.

And Simon also himself believed: and having been immersed, he was persovering with Philip, beholding the signs and great powers having been, they were astonished. And the sent in Jerusalem having heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John: Who, having gone down, prayed for them, that they receive the Holy Spiritread more.
(For not yet was it fallen upon any of them: only they were immersed into the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then put they hands upon them, and they received the Holy Spirit. And Simon having seen that by putting on of hands of the sent the Holy Spirit is given, he brought money to them, Saying, Give me also this power, that upon whomsoever I put hands, he might receive the Holy Spirit. And Peter said to him, May thy silver be for ruin with thee, for thou thoughtest the gift of God to be purchased for money. No portion is to thee, nor lot, in this word: for thy heart is not upright before God. Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray to God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart be remitted to thee. For I see thee being in the bile of bitterness, and bond of iniquity. And Simon having answered, said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that nothing which ye have spoken come upon me.

And a certain man was in Cesarea by name Cornelius, a centurion of the band called Italian, Religious, and fearing God with all his house, and doing many alms to the people, and praying God always. He saw in a vision manifestly about the ninth hour of the day a messenger of God having come in to him, and saying to him, Cornelius.read more.
And having looked at him intently, and being afraid, he said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms went up for remembrance before God. And now send men to Joppa, and send for Simon, who is called Peter: He is received as guest with a certain Simon a currier, to whom is a house by the sea: he shall speak to thee what thou must do. And when the messenger speaking to Cornelius departed, having called two of his servants, and a religious soldier of those persevering with him; And having related all to them, he sent them to Joppa. And the morrow, these travelling, and drawing near to the city, Peter went up upon the house to pray about the sixth hour: And he was hungry, and would have eaten: and these making ready, a deep trance fell upon him, And he sees heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as a great linen napkin fastened at the four beginnings, and laid down upon the earth: In which were all the quadrupeds of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and the flying things of heaven. And a voice was to him, Having risen, Peter, kill, and eat. And Peter said, By no means, Lord; for never ate I anything common or unclean. And a voice again of a second time to him, What things God cleansed, do not thou make common. And this was for thrice: and again was the vessel taken up into heaven. And as Peter was doubting in himself what the vision might be which he saw, and behold, the man sent from Cornelius having asked for Simon's house, stood at the gate, And having called, they were inquiring if Simon, surnamed Peter, is received there as a guest. And Peter reflecting concerning the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee. But thou having risen, come down, and go with them, discussing nothing; for I have sent them. And Peter having come down to the men sent from Cornelius to him, said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what the cause for which ye are present? And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and fearing God, and witnessed of by the whole nation of the Jews, received intimation of the divine will by a holy messenger to send for thee to his house, and hear words of thee. Therefore having called them in, he received as guests. And on the morrow Peter came forth with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa came with him. And the morrow he came to Cesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kinsmen and friends by relationship. And it was as Peter came in, Cornelius having met him, having fallen at his feet, worshipped. And Peter raised him up, saying, Arise: I am also myself man. And discoursing with him, he came in, and finds many come together. And he said to them, Ye know that it is violating law for a man a Jew to join himself, or come near to a strange tribe: and God shewed me to call no man common or unclean. And therefore came I without contradiction, having been sent for; therefore I inquire for what word ye sent for me? And Cornelius said, From the fourth day till this hour I was fasting; and the ninth hour praying in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, And he says, Cornelius, thy prayer was harkened to, and thine alms remembered before God. Therefore send to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he is received as guest in the house of Simon the currier by the sea: who, being present, shall speak to thee. From this therefore sent I to thee: and thou didst well being present. Now therefore are all we present before God, to hear all commanded thee of God.

Wherefore I judge, not to molest them, from the nations turning back to God:

And after certain days said Paul to Barnabas, Now having turned back, let us review our brethren in every city in which we announced the word of the Lord, how they hold.

And certain of them were persuaded, and were assigned by lot to Paul and Silas; and of worshipping Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the first women.

And certain men having joined him, believed: among whom also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman by name Damaris, and others with them.

And the church in their house. Embrace my beloved Epenetus, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.

I return thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God given you in Christ Jesus; That in every thing we were enriched in him, in all the word, and all knowledge; As the testimony of Jesus Christ was made firm in you:

For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born: But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong; And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:read more.
That no flesh might boast before him. And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness: That, as it has been written, Let him boasting, boast in the Lord.

Begin we again to recommend ourselves or need we not, as some; recommendatory epistles to you, or recommendatory from you? Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and acknowledged by all men: Made manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ served by us, not written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables made of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

For if I also boast something more abundantly of our power, which the Lord gave us for the building up, and not for your taking down, I shall not be ashamed:

Try yourselves, if ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye are not tried? And I hope that ye shall know that we are not untried. And I pray to God that ye do nothing evil; not that we appear tried, but that ye do good, and we be as untried.read more.
For we are not able anything against the truth, but for the truth. For we rejoice when we be weak, and ye be able: and this also we pray, your restoration. For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

For I wish you to know how great contest I have for you, and them in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

And recall to mind the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye endured a great combat of sufferings; This, truly, being exposed to public view both by reproaches and pressures; and this, having been partakers of those thus overturned.