Conscience

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day.”

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, — read the full passage →

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect;

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; — read the full passage →

But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

They said one to another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves. — read the full passage →

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience, — read the full passage →

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Then don’t let your good be slandered,

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”

We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

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

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,