Bible Verses About Conversion

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

~2 Chronicles 7:14

If you return to the Lord, then your fellow Israelites and your children will be shown compassion by their captors and will return to this land, for the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.”

~2 Chronicles 30:9

 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

~Colossians 3:5

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

~2 Peter 3:9

 For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!

~Ezekiel 18:32

Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,

~Acts 3:19

Rend your heart
    and not your garments.
Return to the Lord your God,
    for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
    and he relents from sending calamity

~Joel 2:13

 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

~Acts 2:38

Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.

~Matthew 3:8

I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

~Luke 15:7

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

~James 1:21

 From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”

~Matthew 4:17

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

~Luke 5:32

I have swept away your offenses like a cloud,
    your sins like the morning mist.
Return to me,
    for I have redeemed you.”

~Isaiah 44:22

Let the wicked forsake their ways
    and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
    and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

~Isaiah 55:7

 “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”

~Mark 1:15

 Therefore tell the people: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Return to me,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the Lord Almighty.

~Zechariah 1:3

“Even now,” declares the Lord,
    “return to me with all your heart,
    with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

~Joel 2:12

 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.

~Revelation 3:19

But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.

~Ezekiel 18:21

In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

~Luke 15:10

Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.

~Romans 6:13

“Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall.

~Ezekiel 18:30

In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

~Acts 17:30

Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.

~Galatians 6:1

 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

~Mark 16:16

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

~2 Corinthians 5:17

 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

~Ephesians 4:22

¹⁹ Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, ²⁰ and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you—even Jesus. ²¹ Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.

~Acts 3:19-21

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

~James 4:8

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

~Romans 15:13

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

~John 8:32

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

~Galatians 5:16

³⁰ In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. ³¹ For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

~Acts 17:30-31

“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

~Matthew 24:42

And saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”

~Matthew 3:2

But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

~Acts 8:12

The law of the Lord is perfect,
    refreshing the soul.
The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy,
    making wise the simple.

~Psalm 19:7

²¹ For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.

²² “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

~Matthew 24:21-22

Who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

~Galatians 1:4

At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

~John 16:17

Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”

~Luke 21:36

Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

~Romans 1:28

¹¹     there is no one who understands;
    there is no one who seeks God.
¹² All have turned away,
    they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
    not even one.”

~Romans 3:11-12

All have turned away, all have become corrupt;
    there is no one who does good,
    not even one.

~Psalm 14:3

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

~Galatians 4:8

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

~1 Corinthians 1:21

Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.

~1 Corinthians 15:34

Not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;

~1 Thessalonians 4:5

 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

~2 Thessalonians 1:8

Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty.

“But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’

~Malachi 3:7

for the Amalekites and the Canaanites will face you there. Because you have turned away from the Lord, he will not be with you and you will fall by the sword.”

~Numbers 14:43

 Then the Lord told me, “Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt. They have turned away quickly from what I commanded them and have made an idol for themselves.”

~Deuteronomy 9:12

 “I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.” Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the Lord all that night.

~1 Samuel 15:11

The Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

~1 Kings 11:9

Why then have these people turned away?
    Why does Jerusalem always turn away?
They cling to deceit;
    they refuse to return.

~Jeremiah 8:5

Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices.

~Ezekiel 6:9

All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away, refusing to obey you.

“Therefore the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you.

~Daniel 9:11

“But our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

~Acts 7:39

“Turn to me and be saved,
    all you ends of the earth;
    for I am God, and there is no other.

~Isaiah 45:22

You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds,
    God our Savior,
the hope of all the ends of the earth
    and of the farthest seas,

~Psalm 65:5

And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

~Jonah 4:11

I will take away the chariots from Ephraim
    and the warhorses from Jerusalem,
    and the battle bow will be broken.
He will proclaim peace to the nations.
    His rule will extend from sea to sea
    and from the River to the ends of the earth.

~Zechariah 9:10

 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’

~Ezekiel 33:11

~Jeremiah 3:22

 From the time that Amaziah turned away from following the Lord, they conspired against him in Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there.

~2 Chronicles 25:27

“Return, faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.

~Jeremiah 3:14