22 Bible Verses about Conviction Of Sin

Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Come and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us; He has stricken, and He will bind us up.

For I will declare my iniquity; I am anxious from my sin.

And Job answered Jehovah and said,

A voice was heard on the high places weeping, cryings of the sons of Israel; for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

For I confess my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me.

For my heart was grieved and I was pricked in my reins.

And when that One comes, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment.

And hearing this, they were stabbed in the heart, and said to Peter and to the other apostles, Men, brothers, what shall we do?

Then asking for a light he rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.

because your heart was tender and you have humbled yourself before Jehovah, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its people (that they should become a waste and a curse, and have torn your clothes and wept before Me), I have heard you, says Jehovah.

And it happened when Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth and walked softly.

For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne. And he laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he cried out and said in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his great ones, saying, Do not let man or beast, herd or flock taste anything; do not let them feed, nor drink water. But let man and animal be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God. And let them each one turn from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. read more.
Who knows? He may repent, and God may have pity and turn away from the glow of His anger, so that we do not perish.

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

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and the Judgment to come, Felix trembled and answered, Go for this time, but taking time later, I will call for you.

When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you, and am no more worthy to be called your son.

And standing afar off, the tax-collector would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven, but struck on his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner!

And the second time a cock crowed. And Peter remembered the word that Jesus said to him, Before a cock crows twice, you will deny Me three times. And thinking on it, he wept.

And when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there gathered to him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children, for the people wept with a great weeping.