110 Bible Verses about Personal Transformation

You have the power to make choices and change any area of your life, but real transformation comes from God. It's not something you can muscle through on your own; it's the work of Christ in those who sincerely ask for His help in living a transformed life.

Breaking free from sin is tough, I know, but through the power of the Holy Spirit and our relationship with Him, anything is possible. God wants us to live in a state of continual transformation, and that only happens when we surrender our lives to Jesus. It means acknowledging that we need Him and that He's the only one who can bring about true change—in our minds and how we live.

Today is the day to decide to embrace inner transformation, to let Jesus be formed in your heart. Let Him be glorified in you, and He'll give you a life of triumph and glory. Transformation means movement, after all.

God will keep working in you until you are transformed into the likeness of Christ, reflecting more and more of His glory through the power of the Holy Spirit.

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Create a clean heart for me, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

convinced of this same thing, that the one who began a good work in you will finish it until the day of Christ Jesus,

that you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,be renewed in the spirit of your mind,and put on the new man (in accordance with God), who is created in righteousness and holiness from the truth.

And I will give a new heart to you, and a new spirit I will give into your inner parts, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Do not lie to one another, because you have taken off the old man together with his deeds,and have put on the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created him,

Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.”

Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out,

he saved us, not by deeds of righteousness that we have done, but because of his mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit,

Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and toward the patient endurance of Christ.

Rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to Yahweh your God, because he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and great in loyal love, and relenting from harm.

Therefore put to death what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry,

because those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brothers.

But I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never carry out the desire of the flesh.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s possession, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,

Throw away from yourselves all of your transgressions that you committed, and make for yourselves a new heart and new spirit, and so why will you die, house of Israel?

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, self control. Against such things there is no law.

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

“You must not remember the former things, and you not must consider the former things.Look! I am about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts! Do you not perceive it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.

In the same way let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

who has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,in whom we have the redemption, the forgiveness of sins,

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live a new way of life.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, so that he will forgive us our sins and will cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded!

And just as we have borne the image of the one who is made of earth, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

With all vigilance, keep your heart, for from it comes the source of life.

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

In my heart I have hidden your word, so that I may not sin against you.

For neither is circumcision anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is upon me, because Yahweh has anointed me, he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives and liberation to those who are bound,

Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.

For the one at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure, is God.

(the eyes of your hearts having been enlightened), so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the saints,and what is the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty strength

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love and self-discipline.

Therefore, since we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,fixing our eyes on Jesus, the originator and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

And so he brought me up from the roaring pit, from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady.

but as the one who called you is holy, you yourselves be holy in all your conduct,for it is written, “You will be holy, because I am holy.”

Trust Yahweh with all your heart; do not lean toward your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will straighten your paths.

Take pleasure in Yahweh as well, and he will give to you the requests of your heart.

But just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him.”

I am able to do all things by the one who strengthens me.

But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With human beings this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of yourself than what one ought to think, but to think sensibly, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each one.

because his divine power has bestowed on us all things that are necessary for life and godliness, through the knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence of character,through which things he has bestowed on us his precious and very great promises, so that through these you may become sharers of the divine nature after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire,

Now to the one who is able to do beyond all measure more than all that we ask or think, according to the power that is at work in us,

I will run the way of your commands, for you will enlarge my heart.

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh together with its feelings and its desires.

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever he is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

Consequently, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, leaving behind the elementary message about Christ, let us move on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

My flesh and heart failed, but God is the strength of my heart and my reward forever.

Set your mind on the things above, not on the things on earth.

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete, blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.The one who calls you is faithful, who also will do this.

But those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength. They shall go up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not grow weary; they shall walk and not be faint.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you.For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.And see if there is in me the worship of false gods, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Now the one who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anoints us is God,who also sealed us and gave the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

Temptation has not come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, so that you may be able to endure it.

But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow into him with reference to all things, who is the head, Christ,

No, but in all these things we prevail completely through the one who loved us.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and with a willing spirit sustain me.

for as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

For our commonwealth exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,who will transform our humble body to be conformed to his glorious body, in accordance with the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your presence, O Yahweh, my rock and my redeemer.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of sin his thoughts. And let him return to Yahweh, that he may take pity on him, and to our God, for he will forgive manifold.

Therefore, if someone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

Those who sow with tears shall reap with rejoicing.He who diligently goes out with weeping, carrying the seed bag, shall certainly come in with rejoicing, carrying his sheaves.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The path of life leads upward for him who has insight, in order to turn away from Sheol below.

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,equip you with every good thing to do his will, carrying out in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.

And you, although you were dead in your trespasses and sins,in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience,among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath by nature, as also the rest of them were.But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,and we being dead in trespasses, he made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

For through the law I died to the law, in order that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

And although you were formerly alienated and enemies in attitude, because of your evil deeds,but now you have been reconciled by his physical body through death, to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

But now thus says Yahweh, he who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “You must not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name; you are mine.When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not flow over you. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not scorch you.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

because you have delivered my soul from death. Have you not kept my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Only lead your lives in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent I hear your circumstances, that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner person is being renewed day after day.For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure and proportion,because we are not looking at what is seen, but what is not seen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is not seen is eternal.

Come to me, all of you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.For my yoke is easy to carry and my burden is light.”

But from him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, both joints and marrow, and able to judge the reflections and thoughts of the heart.

But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

My child, if you will receive my sayings, and hide my commands with you,in order to incline your ear toward wisdom, then you shall apply your heart to understanding.For if you cry out for understanding, if you lift your voice for insight,if you seek her like silver and search her out like treasure,then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and the knowledge of God you will find.

I await Yahweh; my soul awaits, and I wait for his word.My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning. Yes, more than watchmen for the morning.

And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, if we do not give up.

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another more highly in honor,

All bitterness, and rage, and wrath, and clamor, and abusive speech, must be removed from you, together with all wickedness.Become kind toward one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ has forgiven you.

For God did not call us to impurity, but in holiness.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

You will protect a firm inclination in peace, in peace because he trusts in you.

Therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and dearly loved, put on affection, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience,

Surely God is good to Israel, to those pure of heart.

Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God.

So also you, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Turn away my eyes from looking at what is worthless; revive me in your ways.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks himself to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, in order that he may become wise.

But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone staring at his own face in a mirror,for he looks at himself and goes away and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues to do it, not being a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts, this one will be blessed in what he does.

“And now, children, listen to me; happy are those who will keep my ways.Hear teaching and be wise; do not neglect it.

And let us think about how to stir one another up to love and good works,not abandoning our meeting together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging each other, and by so much more as you see the day drawing near.

He turns rivers into a wilderness and springs of water into thirsty ground,

The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, and he who captures souls is wise.

And I will give to them one heart, and a new spirit I will give in their inner parts. And I will remove their heart of stone from their body, and I will give to them a heart of flesh,so that they may walk in my statutes, and they will keep my regulations, and they will do them, and they will be to me a people, and I myself will be to them as God.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

And we all, with unveiled face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory into glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.

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