CONVICTION

Passages on this topic · 124

• Genesis 3:8

  They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

• Genesis 3:9

  Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

• Genesis 3:10

  The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

• Genesis 4:13

  Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

• Genesis 42:21

  They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

• Genesis 42:22

  Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”

• Genesis 44:16

  Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

• Genesis 45:3

  Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

• Genesis 50:15

  When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”

• Genesis 50:16

  They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,

• Genesis 50:17

  ‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

• Genesis 50:18

  His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

• Genesis 50:19

  Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

• Genesis 50:20

  As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive.

• Genesis 50:21

  Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

• Exodus 9:27

  Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

• Exodus 9:28

  Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

• Exodus 10:16

  Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.

• Exodus 10:17

  Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”

• Exodus 12:32

  Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”

• Exodus 33:4

  When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.

• Numbers 14:39

  Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

• Numbers 14:40

  They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised: for we have sinned.”

• Numbers 21:7

  The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.

• Deuteronomy 28:65

  Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

• Deuteronomy 28:66

  Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.

• Deuteronomy 28:67

  In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.

• 1 Samuel 15:24

  Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

• 1 Kings 17:18

  She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

• 1 Chronicles 21:30

  But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.

• Job 33:14

  For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

• Job 33:15

  In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;

• Job 33:16

  Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

• Job 33:17

  That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

• Job 33:18

  He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

• Job 33:19

  He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

• Job 33:20

  So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

• Job 33:21

  His flesh is so consumed away, that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

• Job 33:22

  Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

• Job 33:23

  “If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

• Job 33:24

  then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

• Job 33:25

  His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

• Job 33:26

  He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

• Job 33:27

  He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

• Job 33:28

  He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’

• Job 33:29

  “Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

• Job 33:30

  to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

• Job 40:4

  “Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

• Job 40:5

  I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

• Psalms 31:10

  For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

• Psalms 38:1

  A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

• Psalms 38:2

  For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

• Psalms 38:3

  There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

• Psalms 38:4

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

• Psalms 38:5

  My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

• Psalms 38:6

  I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

• Psalms 38:7

  For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

• Psalms 38:8

  I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

• Psalms 38:9

  Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

• Psalms 38:10

  My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

• Psalms 38:11

  My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

• Psalms 38:12

  They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

• Psalms 38:13

  But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

• Psalms 38:14

  Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

• Psalms 38:15

  For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

• Psalms 38:16

  For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

• Psalms 38:17

  For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

• Psalms 38:18

  For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

• Psalms 38:19

  But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

• Psalms 38:20

  They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

• Psalms 38:21

  Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.

• Psalms 38:22

  Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.

• Psalms 51:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

• Psalms 51:2

  Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

• Psalms 51:3

  For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

• Psalms 51:4

  Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

• Psalms 51:7

  Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

• Psalms 51:8

  Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

• Psalms 51:9

  Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

• Psalms 51:10

  Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

• Psalms 51:11

  Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.

• Psalms 51:12

  Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

• Psalms 51:13

  Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.

• Psalms 51:14

  Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

• Psalms 51:15

  Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.

• Psalms 51:16

  For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

• Psalms 51:17

  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

• Isaiah 6:5

  Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

• Lamentations 1:20

  “See, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad the sword bereaves. At home it is like death.

• Ezekiel 7:16

  But those of those who escape will escape, and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.

• Ezekiel 7:17

  All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water.

• Ezekiel 7:25

  Destruction comes! They will seek peace, and there will be none.

• Ezekiel 7:26

  Mischief will come on mischief, and rumor will be on rumor. They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

• Ezekiel 33:10

  You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?

• Daniel 5:6

  Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

• Daniel 6:18

  Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.

• Jonah 1:16

  Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

• Micah 7:17

  They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.

• Matthew 12:41

  The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

• Matthew 14:2

  and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.”

• Matthew 27:3

  Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

• Matthew 27:4

  saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

• Matthew 27:5

  He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

• Mark 6:14

  King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, “John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.”

• Luke 5:8

  But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

• Luke 9:7

  Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

• Luke 11:32

  The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

• John 6:44

  No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

• John 6:45

  It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.

• John 8:9

  They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

• John 16:7

  Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

• John 16:8

  When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;

• John 16:9

  about sin, because they don’t believe in me;

• John 16:10

  about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;

• John 16:11

  about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

• Acts 2:37

  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?”

• Acts 9:6

  But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

• Acts 16:14

  A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

• Acts 16:29

  He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

• Acts 16:30

  brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

• Acts 24:25

  As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

• Romans 2:15

  in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

• 1 Corinthians 14:24

  But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.

• 1 Corinthians 14:25

  And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.