CONVINCE.Adams (Serm. ii. 38) says: Whatsoever is written is written either for our instruction or destruction; to convert us if we embrace it, to convince us if we despise it. This is the meaning of convince in the AV [Note: Authorized Version.] . It is what we now express by convict. Thus Jud_1:15 to convince all that are ungodly among them of their ungodly deeds.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
kon-vins? (ἐλέγχω, elégchō): Another form etymologically of ?convict,? means to bring to a decision concerning the truth or the falsehood of a proposition (Job_32:12). As usually applied to what is of a more individual and private character, and having reference to what is either good or bad, or what is in itself without moral quality, it has given way in the Revised Version (British and American) to either ?convict,? ?reprove? or ?confute.? See CONVICT.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.