Bible verses about "conversion" | Goodspeed

² "Repent!" he said, "for the Kingdom of Heaven is coming!"

⁴² So you must be on the watch, for you do not know on what day your Master is coming.

²¹ for there will be greater misery then than there has ever been from the beginning of creation until now, or ever will be again. ²² If those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's people those days will be cut short.

¹ Now after the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem in Judea, in the days of King Herod, astrologers from the east arrived at Jerusalem, ² and asked, "Where is the newly born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star rise and we have come to do homage to him." ³ When King Herod heard of this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. ⁴ So he called together all the high priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Christ was to be born. ⁵ They said, "At Bethlehem in Judea, for this is what the prophet wrote: ⁶ " 'And you, Bethlehem in Judah's land, You are by no means least important among the leading places of Judah, For from you will come a leader Who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.' "

²² If those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's people those days will be cut short.

¹² On the first day of the festival of Unleavened Bread, on which it was customary to kill the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples said to him, "Where do you wish us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the Passover supper?"

¹³ But he who holds out to the end will be saved.

¹³ "Go in at the narrow gate. For the road that leads to destruction is broad and spacious, and there are many who go in by it. ¹⁴ But the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few that find it.

⁴⁴ Therefore you must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him.

¹⁷ Then some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean when he tells us, 'In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"

³⁶ But you must be vigilant and always pray that you may succeed in escaping all this that is going to happen, and in standing in the presence of the Son of Man."

¹² But when they believed Philip's message of the good news of the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, men and women alike accepted baptism.

¹⁶ But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the express purpose of appointing you to serve me and to testify to what you have seen and to the visions you will have of me. ¹⁷ I will save you from your people and from the heathen, to whom I will send you ¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they may have their sins forgiven and have a place among those who are consecrated through faith in me.'

²⁸ "You are in a hurry to persuade me and make a Christian of me!" Agrippa said to Paul. ²⁹ "In a hurry or not," said Paul, "I would to God that not only you, but all who hear me today, might be what I am—except for these chains!" ³⁰ Then the king rose, with the governor and Bernice and those who had sat with them, ³¹ and after leaving the room, in talking the matter over together, they said, "This man has not done anything to deserve death or imprisonment." ³² "He might have been set at liberty," said Agrippa to Festus, "if he had not appealed to the emperor."

³³ And right then in the night, he took them and washed their wounds, and he and all his household were baptized immediately.

¹⁶ I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings.

⁴ who to save us from the present wicked world gave himself for our sins at the will of our God and Father.

³⁷ When they heard this, they were stung to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" ³⁸ Peter said to them, "You must repent, and every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit, ³⁹ for the promise of it belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those far away whom the Lord our God calls to him."

³⁰ While God overlooked those times of ignorance, he now calls upon all men everywhere to repent, ³¹ since he has fixed a day on which he will justly judge the world through a man whom he has appointed, and whom he has guaranteed to all men by raising him from the dead."

¹⁷ So if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being; the old state of things has passed away; there is a new state of things.

¹⁹ So repent and turn to God, to have your sins wiped out, and happier times will come from the presence of the Lord,

³² and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

¹³ May God, the source of hope, fill you with perfect happiness and peace in your faith, so that you may have overflowing hope through the power of the holy Spirit.

⁸ Approach God, and he will approach you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Make your hearts pure, you doubters!

¹⁹ So repent and turn to God, to have your sins wiped out, and happier times will come from the presence of the Lord, ²⁰ and he will send Jesus, your destined Christ. ²¹ Yet he must remain in heaven till the time for the universal reformation of which God told in ancient times by the lips of his holy prophets.

²² You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

¹⁶ He who believes it and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe it will be condemned.

³⁸ Peter said to them, "You must repent, and every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit,