Bible verses about "conversion" | WNT

² "Repent," he said, "for the Kingdom of the Heavens is now close at hand."

⁴² Be on the alert therefore, for you do not know the day on which your Lord is coming.

²¹ for it WILL BE a time of great SUFFERING, SUCH AS NEVER HAS BEEN FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TILL NOW, and assuredly never will be again. ²² And if those days had not been cut short, no one would escape; but for the sake of God's own People those days will be cut short.

¹ Now after the birth of Jesus, which took place at Bethlehem in Judaea in the reign of King Herod, excitement was produced in Jerusalem by the arrival of certain Magi from the east, ² inquiring, "Where is the newly born king of the Jews? For we have seen his Star in the east, and have come here to do him homage." ³ Reports of this soon reached the king, and greatly agitated not only him but all the people of Jerusalem. ⁴ So he assembled all the High Priests and Scribes of the people, and anxiously asked them where the Christ was to be born. ⁵ "At Bethlehem in Judaea," they replied; "for so it stands written in the words of the Prophet, ⁶ "'AND THOU, BETHLEHEM IN THE LAND OF JUDAH, BY NO MEANS THE LEAST HONORABLE ART THOU AMONG PRINCELY PLACES IN JUDAH! FOR FROM THEE SHALL COME A PRINCE--ONE WHO SHALL BE THE SHEPHERD OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.'"

²² And if those days had not been cut short, no one would escape; but for the sake of God's own People those days will be cut short.

¹² On the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread--the day for killing the Passover lamb--His disciples asked Him, "Where shall we go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

¹³ but those who stand firm to the End shall be saved.

¹³ "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad the road which leads to ruin, and many there are who enter by it; ¹⁴ because narrow is the gate and contracted the road which leads to Life, and few are those who find it.

⁴⁴ Therefore you also must be ready; for it is at a time when you do not expect Him that the Son of Man will come.

¹⁷ Some of His disciples therefore said to one another, "What does this mean which He is telling us, 'A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me,' and 'Because I am going to the Father'?"

³⁶ But beware of slumbering; and every moment pray that you may be fully strengthened to escape from all these coming evils, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man."

¹² But when Philip began to tell the Good News about the Kingdom of God and about the Name of Jesus Christ, and they embraced the faith, they were baptized, men and women alike.

¹⁶ 'But rise, and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for the very purpose of appointing you My servant and My witness both as to the things you have already seen and as to those in which I will appear to you. ¹⁷ I will save you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you to open their eyes, ¹⁸ that they may turn from darkness to light and from the obedience to Satan to God, in order to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified through faith in Me.'

²⁸ Agrippa answered, "In brief, you are doing your best to persuade me to become a Christian." ²⁹ "My prayer to God, whether briefly or at length," replied Paul, "would be that not only you but all who are my hearers to-day, might become such as I am--except these chains." ³⁰ So the King rose, and the Governor, and Bernice, and those who were sitting with them; ³¹ and, having withdrawn, they talked to one another and said, "This man is doing nothing for which he deserves death or imprisonment." ³² And Agrippa said to Festus, "He might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar."

³³ Then he took them, even at that time of night, washed their wounds, and he and all his household were immediately baptized;

¹⁶ This then is what I mean. Let your lives be guided by the Spirit, and then you will certainly not indulge the cravings of your lower natures.

⁴ who gave Himself to suffer for our sins in order to rescue us from the present wicked age in accordance with the will of our God and Father.

³⁷ Stung to the heart by these words, they said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles, "Brethren, what are we to do?" ³⁸ "Repent," replied Peter, "and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, with a view to the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹ For to you belongs the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, whoever the Lord our God may call."

³⁰ Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent, ³¹ seeing that He has appointed a day on which, before long, He will judge the world in righteousness, through the instrumentality of a man whom He has pre-destined to this work, and has made the fact certain to every one by raising Him from the dead."

¹⁷ So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence.

¹⁹ Repent, therefore, and reform your lives, so that the record of your sins may be cancelled, and that there may come seasons of revival from the Lord,

³² and you shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free."

¹³ May God, the giver of hope, fill you with continual joy and peace because you trust in Him--so that you may have abundant hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

⁸ Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you who are half-hearted towards God.

¹⁹ Repent, therefore, and reform your lives, so that the record of your sins may be cancelled, and that there may come seasons of revival from the Lord, ²⁰ and that He may send the Christ appointed beforehand for you--even Jesus. ²¹ Heaven must receive Him until those times of which God has spoken from the earliest ages through the lips of His holy Prophets--the times of the reconstitution of all things.

²² to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses,

¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

³⁸ "Repent," replied Peter, "and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, with a view to the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.