CONVICTION

CONVICTION. → OF SIN Ge 4:13; De 28:65-67; Job 40:4,5; Ps 31:10; 38:1-22; 51:1-4,7-17; Isa 6:5; La 1:20; Eze 7:16,17,25,26; 33:10; Mic 7:17; Lu 5:8; Ac 2:37; 9:6; 16:29,30; Ro 2:15; 1Co 14:24,25
* See SIN, CONFESSION OF

→ INSTANCES OF
* Adam and Eve, after their disobedience Ge 3:8-10
* Joseph's brother, on account of their cruelty to Joseph Ge 42:21,22; 44:16; 45:3; 50:15-21
* Pharaoh

After the plague of hail Ex 9:27,28 The plague of locusts Ex 10:16,17 The death of the firstborn Ex 12:32
* The Israelites

After being rebuked and punished for worshiping the golden calf Ex 33:4 The death of the ten spies and their being sentenced to wander for forty years Nu 14:39,40 Their complaining against God and being bitten by fiery serpents Nu 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, Da 5:6
* Darius, when Daniel was in the lions' den Da 6:18
* Mariners

After casting Jonah into the sea Jon 1:16 At the preaching of Jonah Jon 3; Mt 12:41; Lu 11:32
* Jonah, in the belly of the great fish Jon 2
* Herod, when he heard of the fame of Jesus Mt 14:2; Mr 6:14; Lu 9:7
* Jews, when Jesus commanded the guiltless man to cast the first stone at the woman taken in adultery Joh 8:9
* Judas, after his betrayal of Jesus Mt 27:3-5
* Saul of Tarsus, when he saw Jesus on the way to Damascus Ac 9:6
* Felix, under the preaching of Paul Ac 24:25
* Philippian jailer, after the earthquake Ac 16:30
* See WICKED

→ FROM GOD Job 33:14-30; Joh 6:44,45; 16:7-11; Ac 16:14
* See PENITENTS
* See REMORSE
* See REPENTANCE
* See SIN, CONFESSION OF

→ UNJUST, OF INNOCENT PERSONS
* See ACCUSATION, FALSE
* See INDICTMENTS

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conviction. Conviction, n. a full proof, detection, sense

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Con‐vic″tion (kŏn‐vĭk″shŭn), n. [[L. convictio proof: cf. F. conviction conviction (in sense 3 & 4). See Convict, Convince.]] 1. 1. The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.
The greater certainty of conviction and the greater certainty of punishment. Hallam. 2. 2. (Law) A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal.
Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone. 3. 3. The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.
For all his tedious talk is but vain boast, Or subtle shifts conviction to evade. Milton. 4. 4. The state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience.
To call good evil, and evil good, against the conviction of their own consciences. Swift. And did you presently fall under the power of this conviction? Bunyan. Syn. — Conviction; persuasion. — Conviction respects soley matters of belief or faith; persuasion respects matters of belief or practice. Conviction respects our most important duties; persuasion is frequently applied to matters of indifference. Crabb. — Conviction is the result of the understanding; persuasion, of the will. Conviction is a necessity of the mind, persuasion an acquiescence of the inclination. C. J. Smith. — Persuasion often induces men to act in opposition to their conviction of duty.