100 Bible Verses About Conviction
Bible verses about Conviction
Scripture reveals conviction as a profound work of the Holy Spirit, a divine nudge toward truth and righteousness. Exploring Bible verses on conviction illuminates its vital role in spiritual growth. It's not merely feeling bad about wrongdoings, but a God-given awareness that sparks repentance and transformation. Through understanding biblical conviction, we learn to discern God's voice, inviting correction and aligning our lives with His will. Embrace these verses as a guide, allowing the Spirit to cultivate a heart sensitive to His promptings, leading you toward a deeper, more authentic relationship with Christ.
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Isaiah 13:10 (KJV)
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Conviction: Bible Verses for Guilt, Repentance, & Change
And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the Lord: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only.
Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense.
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?
Go ye, enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the Lord:
And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses.
We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.
And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses.
When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.
Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.
And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the Lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.
And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
The Bible's verses on conviction reveal its multifaceted nature: a divine catalyst prompting awareness of sin, a powerful force for transformation, and a guiding light towards righteousness. From the piercing words of prophets to Jesus' call for repentance and the Holy Spirit's ongoing work, these scriptures illustrate that conviction is not merely guilt, but a profound opportunity for growth and reconciliation with God. Embracing this conviction, understanding its source, and responding with humility and a willingness to change are crucial steps on the path of faith. May these verses encourage deep self-reflection, inspire a genuine desire for repentance, and ultimately lead you towards a life that reflects God's grace and truth. Let the conviction of the Spirit empower you to live with purpose and integrity, guided by the unwavering love of God.