22 Bible Verses about Conviction Of Sin

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Come and let us return unto Jehovah: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

For I will declare mine iniquity, I am grieved for my sin.

And Job answered Jehovah and said,

A voice is heard upon the heights, the weeping supplications of the children of Israel; for they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is continually before me.

When my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins,

And having come, he will bring demonstration to the world, of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

And having heard it they were pricked in heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, What shall we do, brethren?

And having asked for lights, he rushed in, and, trembling, fell down before Paul and Silas.

Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before Jehovah, when thou heardest what I spoke against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and didst rend thy garments and weep before me, I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah.

And it came to pass when Ahab heard these words, that he rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water; and let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. read more.
Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.

And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.

And the second time a cock crew. And Peter remembered the word that Jesus said to him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice; and when he thought thereon he wept.

And while Ezra prayed, and made confession, weeping and falling down before the house of God, there were gathered to him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children; for the people wept very much.