Conviction: Of Sin

Gen 4:13; Deu 28:65-67; Job 40:4, 5; Psa 31:10; 38:1-22; 51:1-4, 7-17; Isa 6:5; Lam 1:20; Eze 7:16, 17, 25, 26; 33:10; Mic 7:17; Luk 5:8; Act 2:37; 9:6; 16:29, 30; Rom 2:15; 1Cr 14:24, 25

See SIN, CONFESSION OF

Conviction: Instances Of

Adam and Eve, after their disobedience,

Gen 3:8-10.

Joseph's brother, on account of their cruelty to Joseph,

Gen 42:21, 22; 44:16; 45:3; 50:15-21.

Pharaoh:

After the plague of hail,

Exd 9:27, 28;

the plague of locusts,

Exd 10:16, 17;

the death of the firstborn,

Exd 12:32.

The Israelites:

After being rebuked and punished for worshiping the golden calf,

Exd 33:4;

the death of the ten spies and their being sentenced to wander for forty years,

Num 14:39, 40;

their complaining against God and being bitten by fiery serpents,

Num 21:7.

Saul, after sparing Agag and the best of the spoils,

1Sa 15:24.

David, after the pestilence sent on account of his numbering the people,

1Ch 21:30.

See PSALMS, PENITENTIAL.

Widow of Zarephath, when her son died,

1Ki 17:18.

Belshazzar, when he "saw the part of the hand that wrote,"

Dan 5:6.

Darius, when Daniel was in the lions' den,

Dan 6:18.

Mariners:

After casting Jonah into the sea,

Jon 1:16,

at the preaching of Jonah,

Jon 3; Mat 12:41; Luk 11:32.

Jonah, in the belly of the great fish,

Jon 2.

Herod, when he heard of the fame of Jesus,

Mat 14:2; Mar 6:14; Luk 9:7.

Jews, when Jesus commanded the guiltless man to cast the first stone at the woman taken in adultery,

Jhn 8:9.

Judas, after his betrayal of Jesus,

Mat 27:3-5.

Saul of Tarsus, when he saw Jesus on the way to Damascus,

Act 9:6.

Felix, under the preaching of Paul,

Act 24:25.

Philippian jailer, after the earthquake,

Act 16:30.

See WICKED.

Conviction: From God

Job 33:14-30; Jhn 6:44, 45; 16:7-11; Act 16:14

See PENITENTS; REMORSE; REPENTANCE; SIN, CONFESSION OF.

Conviction: Unjust, of Innocent Persons

See ACCUSATION, FALSE; INDICTMENTS.