Conversion
29 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
12 sections
- Commanded
- Danger of Neglecting
- Duty of Leading Sinners To
- Encouragement for Leading Sinners To
- Exhortations To
- Follows Repentance
- Pray For
- Promises Connected With
- Through the Instrumentality of Affliction
- Through the Instrumentality of Ministers
- Through the Instrumentality of Self-Examination
- Through the Instrumentality of The Scriptures
Commanded
- Job 36:10 He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity.
Danger of Neglecting
- Psalm 7:12 If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
- Jeremiah 44:5 But they did not listen or incline their ears; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.
- Jeremiah 44:11 Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah.
- Ezekiel 3:19 But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
Duty of Leading Sinners To
- Psalm 51:13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.
Encouragement for Leading Sinners To
- Daniel 12:3 Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.
- James 5:19–20 My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, …
Exhortations To
- Proverbs 1:23 If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
- Isaiah 31:6 Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
- Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
- Jeremiah 3:7 I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
- Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O …
Follows Repentance
- Acts 3:19 Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
- Acts 26:20 First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.
Pray For
- Psalm 80:7 Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
- Psalm 85:4 Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
- Jeremiah 31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
- Lamentations 5:21 Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
Promises Connected With
- Nehemiah 1:9 but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’
- Isaiah 1:27 Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.
- Jeremiah 3:14 “Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you — one from a city and two from a family — and bring you to Zion.
- Ezekiel 18:27 But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
Through the Instrumentality of Affliction
- Psalm 78:34 When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
Through the Instrumentality of Ministers
- Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
- 1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
Through the Instrumentality of Self-Examination
- Psalm 119:59 I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
- Lamentations 3:40 Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
Through the Instrumentality of The Scriptures
- Psalm 19:7 The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
Related topics
Conversion of Gentiles, PredictedConversion of Sinners, a Cause of JoyConversion by GodConversion by ChristConversion is of GraceConversion by the Power of the Holy Spirit
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.