22 Bible Verses about Conviction Of Sin

therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

"Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.

I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.

Then Job answered the LORD and said:

A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the LORD their God.

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,

And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:

Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"

And the jailer called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas.

because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.

And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.

The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. read more.
Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish."

For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, "Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you."

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." And he broke down and wept.

While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.