22 Bible Verses about Conviction Of Sin
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When I kept silent about my sins, my body wasted away and I groaned all day long.
My guilt has overwhelmed me. Like a heavy load, it is more than I can bear.
Upon arrival this one will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.
Woe to me! I cried. I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips (a sinner) and I live among a people of unclean (filthy) lips (speech) (language). My eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.
When Simon Peter saw this he fell down at Jesus' knees. He said: Depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
Now when they heard this, they were stabbed to the heart, and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: Men and brothers, what shall we do?
He reasoned about righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come. Felix trembled, and answered: Go your way for now. When I have time I will send for you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Come, and let us return to Jehovah. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us. He has wounded us but he will bandage us.
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?
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.
Father, the son said: 'I have sinned against God and against you. I am not fit to be called your son.'
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
Come, and let us return to Jehovah. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us. He has wounded us but he will bandage us.
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
Upon arrival this one will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.
Conviction of sin » Conviction of sin results of » Sting of conscience
Now when they heard this, they were stabbed to the heart, and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: Men and brothers, what shall we do?
Conviction of sin » Examples of » Josiah
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
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
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
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
He reasoned about righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come. Felix trembled, and answered: Go your way for now. When I have time I will send for you.
Conviction of sin » Conviction of sin results of » Unrest
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
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
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
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
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.