Conscience

may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,

having faith and a good conscience, which certain having thrust away, concerning the faith did make shipwreck,

Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, in all things willing to behave well,

having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

And Paul having earnestly beheld the sanhedrim, said, `Men, brethren, I in all good conscience have lived to God unto this day;'

who do shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also witnessing with them, and between one another the thoughts accusing or else defending,

all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience;

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,

Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience,

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, — read the full passage →

And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, `This <FI>is<Fi> the way, go ye in it,' When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.

and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

also to which an antitype doth now save us--baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

but not in all men <FI>is<Fi> the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat <FI>it<Fi> , and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience,

and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.

For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law--to themselves are a law; — read the full passage →

and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders--unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience--in regard to Christ ye sin;

for this <FI>is<Fi> gracious, if because of conscience toward God any one doth endure sorrows, suffering unrighteously;

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat--shall not his conscience--he being infirm--be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

which <FI>is<Fi> a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving,

but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because <FI>it is<Fi> not of faith; and all that <FI>is<Fi> not of faith is sin.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

The breath of man <FI>is<Fi> a lamp of Jehovah, Searching all the inner parts of the heart.

Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,

Thou hast faith! to thyself have <FI>it<Fi> before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,

For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law--to themselves are a law;

since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right--and he who is discerning me is the Lord:

And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly; — read the full passage →

and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' --do not eat, because of that one who shewed <FI>it<Fi> , and of the conscience, for the Lord's <FI>is<Fi> the earth and its fulness:

let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of life.

And they say one unto another, `Verily we <FI>are<Fi> guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.'

one doth believe that he may eat all things--and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

because if our heart may condemn--because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing <FI>is<Fi> unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean--to that one <FI>it is<Fi> unclean;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why <FI>is it<Fi> that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?

And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day <FI>alike<Fi> ; let each in his own mind be fully assured.

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that <FI>is<Fi> in my members.

Right <FI>it is<Fi> not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to <FI>do anything<Fi> in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

Thou hast faith! to thyself have <FI>it<Fi> before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve, — read the full passage →

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up; — read the full passage →

But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man <FI>is<Fi> his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.

or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? --not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh--to the age--that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;

for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure, but evil <FI>is<Fi> to the man who is eating through stumbling.

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience, — read the full passage →

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

and all to Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea;

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

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, `Why these things reason ye in your hearts?

`I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved <FI>me<Fi> many things to do,

and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth <FI>him<Fi> to know;

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, — read the full passage →

and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,

according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus--I going on to Macedonia--that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing,

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it--it doth yield.

And Abimelech saith, `What <FI>is<Fi> this thou hast done to us? as a little thing one of the people had lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us guilt;'

and we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those practising such things.

Then Judas--he who delivered him up--having seen that he was condemned, having repented, brought back the thirty silverlings to the chief priests, and to the elders, saying,

So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings--

and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,