22 Bible Verses about Conviction Of Sin

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Psalm 32:3

When I kept silent about my sins, my body wasted away and I groaned all day long.

Psalm 38:4

My guilt has overwhelmed me. Like a heavy load, it is more than I can bear.

Psalm 73:21

My heart was grieved and I was pierced within.

Acts 16:29

The jailer called for lights. He rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.

1 Kings 21:27

Elijah finished speaking. Ahab tore his clothes and took them off. He dressed in sackcloth. He refused food (fasted) and slept in the sackcloth. He was gloomy and depressed.

2 Kings 22:19

You had a change of heart and humbled yourself in front of Jehovah when you heard my words against this place and those who live here. I said that those who live here would be destroyed and cursed. You also tore your clothes in distress and cried in front of me. So I will listen to you,' declares Jehovah.

Ezra 10:1

While Ezra was saying his prayer and his confession of wrongdoing he wept and fell down before the house of God. A very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together around him, for the people were weeping bitterly.

Jeremiah 3:21

A voice is heard on the bare hills. It is the crying and the pleading of the people of Israel. They are perverted and have forgotten Jehovah their God.

Jonah 3:6-9

The news reached the king of Nineveh. He left his throne, and took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth. Then he sat in ashes. He made proclamation and published it in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not eat, nor drink water. Let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast. Let them sincerely call on God! Let them turn away each one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.read more.
Who knows whether God will turn back and change his mind, and turn away from his fierce anger that we will not perish?

Mark 14:72

Then a rooster crowed. Peter remembered what Jesus said: Before the rooster crows two times, you will deny me three times. He broke down and cried.

Luke 15:21

Father, the son said: 'I have sinned against God and against you. I am not fit to be called your son.'

Luke 18:13

But the tax collector stood far away and would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner.

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Conviction of sin » Examples of » Job

Jeremiah 3:21

A voice is heard on the bare hills. It is the crying and the pleading of the people of Israel. They are perverted and have forgotten Jehovah their God.

Conviction of sin » Conviction of sin results of » Misery

Psalm 73:21

My heart was grieved and I was pierced within.

Conviction of sin » Conviction of sin results of » Sting of conscience

Acts 16:29

The jailer called for lights. He rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.

Conviction of sin » Examples of » Josiah

2 Kings 22:19

You had a change of heart and humbled yourself in front of Jehovah when you heard my words against this place and those who live here. I said that those who live here would be destroyed and cursed. You also tore your clothes in distress and cried in front of me. So I will listen to you,' declares Jehovah.

Conviction of sin » Examples of » Ahab

1 Kings 21:27

Elijah finished speaking. Ahab tore his clothes and took them off. He dressed in sackcloth. He refused food (fasted) and slept in the sackcloth. He was gloomy and depressed.

Conviction of sin » Examples of » The ninevites

Jonah 3:6-9

The news reached the king of Nineveh. He left his throne, and took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth. Then he sat in ashes. He made proclamation and published it in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not eat, nor drink water. Let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast. Let them sincerely call on God! Let them turn away each one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. read more.
Who knows whether God will turn back and change his mind, and turn away from his fierce anger that we will not perish?

Conviction of sin » Conviction of sin results of » Burden of soul

Psalm 38:4

My guilt has overwhelmed me. Like a heavy load, it is more than I can bear.

Conviction of sin » Conviction of sin results of » Terror

Conviction of sin » Conviction of sin results of » Unrest

Psalm 32:3

When I kept silent about my sins, my body wasted away and I groaned all day long.

Conviction of sin » Examples of » The prodigal son

Luke 15:21

Father, the son said: 'I have sinned against God and against you. I am not fit to be called your son.'

Conviction of sin » Examples of » The publican

Luke 18:13

But the tax collector stood far away and would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner.

Conviction of sin » Examples of » Peter

Mark 14:72

Then a rooster crowed. Peter remembered what Jesus said: Before the rooster crows two times, you will deny me three times. He broke down and cried.

Conviction of sin » Examples of » Israel in ezra's time

Ezra 10:1

While Ezra was saying his prayer and his confession of wrongdoing he wept and fell down before the house of God. A very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together around him, for the people were weeping bitterly.

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