Verses for Witnessing
Scriptures for the believer to use when witnessing to the lost.
Verses for Witnessing
Scriptures for the believer to use when witnessing to the lost.
God created you.
Ps 139:13-14 13 For You formed my inward parts; you covered me in my mother's womb.
14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.
God loves you.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
God wants you to know Him.
John 10:10 ... I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
John 17:3 "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
What is sin?
James 4:17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Who has sinned?
Rom 3:10 As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one;
Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned--
What happens when we sin?
Isa 59:2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Why did Jesus have to die?
Rom 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 5:18 Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.
Col 1:14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
1 Pet 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness-- by whose stripes you were healed.
1 Pet 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,
Why did Jesus rise from the dead?
1 Cor 15:3-6 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.
6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.
Turn to God, away from sin.
Acts 3:19 "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
You must trust in Jesus.
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
You must receive Jesus Christ.
John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
Invite Jesus into your life.
Rom 10:9-10 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Rev 3:20 "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
Prayer of salvation.
Acknowledge your sins to God. Acknowledge that Jesus died on the cross for your sins. Invite Jesus into your heart. Ask for forgiveness. Thank Him for your salvation. Tell Him of your desire to live for Him. Ask Him to direct your life.
(all verses from NKJV)
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