1 Timothy 1:5 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁵ The aim of your instruction must be love that springs from a pure heart and from a good conscience and from a sincere faith.

⁸ "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God!

³⁵ A good man, out of the good he has accumulated, brings out things that are good, and a bad man, out of what he has accumulated that is bad, brings out things that are bad.

²⁸ One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing. He saw that Jesus had answered them well, and he asked him, "Which is the first of all the commands?" ²⁹ Jesus answered, "The first one is, 'Hear, Israel! The Lord our God is one lord, ³⁰ and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind, and your whole strength.' ³¹ And this is the second: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' No other command is greater than these." ³² The scribe said to him, "Really, Master, you have finely said that he stands alone, and there is none but he, ³³ and to love him with one's whole heart, one's whole understanding, and one's whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self is far more than all these burnt-offerings and sacrifices." ³⁴ And Jesus saw that he answered thoughtfully, and he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God!" And no one ventured to ask him any more questions.

⁹ making no difference between us and them, but cleansing their hearts by faith.

¹ Paul looked steadily at the council and said, "Brothers, I have done my duty to God with a perfectly clear conscience up to this very day."

¹⁶ Therefore I strive always to have a clear conscience before God and men.

¹ I am telling the truth as a Christian, it is no falsehood, for my conscience under the holy Spirit's influence bears me witness in it,

⁴ For Christ marks the termination of law, so that now anyone who has faith may attain uprightness.

⁸ Owe nobody anything—except the duty of mutual love, for whoever loves his fellow-men has fully satisfied the Law. ⁹ For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery, You must not murder, You must not steal, You must not covet," and any other commandments there are, are all summed up in one saying, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself." ¹⁰ Love never wrongs a neighbor, and so love fully satisfies the Law.

¹⁵ For if your brother's feelings are hurt by what you eat, your life is not governed by love. You must not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died.

¹ About food that has been offered to idols, it is true, as you say, that we all have some knowledge on that matter. Knowledge gives people airs; love is what builds up character. ² If a man thinks he has acquired some knowledge, he does not yet know it as well as he ought to know it. ³ But if a man loves God, God is known by him.

¹ I will show you a far better way. If I can speak the languages of men and even of angels, but have no love, I am only a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal.

¹ You must pursue love, while you are cultivating the spiritual endowments, and especially inspired preaching.

¹² For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.

⁶ For in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the want of it counts for anything, but only faith acting through love.

¹³ For you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for the physical, but in love be slaves to one another. ¹⁴ For the whole Law is summed up in one saying: "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

²² But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

¹⁹ keeping hold of faith and a good conscience. For some people have let that go and have had their faith ruined,

⁹ but holding the divine truth of the faith with a clear conscience.

³ I thank God, whom I, like my forefathers, worship with a clear conscience, when I remember you, as I constantly do, in my prayers.

⁵ of being reminded of your genuine faith, a faith that was seen first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice; I am sure it is in you also.

²² Fly from the cravings of youth, and go in pursuit of uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.

¹⁵ To the pure everything is pure, but to the evil-minded and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are unclean.

¹⁴ how much more surely will the blood of the Christ, who with the eternal Spirit made himself an unblemished offering to God, purify our consciences from the old wrongdoing for the worship of the everliving God?

²² let us draw near to God in sincerity of heart and with perfect faith, with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies washed with clean water.

⁵ Faith caused Enoch to be taken up from the earth without experiencing death; he could not be found, because God had taken him up. For before he was taken up there is evidence that he pleased God, ⁶ but without faith it is impossible to please him; for whoever would approach God must have faith in his existence and in his willingness to reward those who try to find him.

¹⁸ Pray for me, for I am sure I have a clear conscience, and I mean in every way to live an upright life.

⁸ Approach God, and he will approach you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Make your hearts pure, you doubters!

²² Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily,

¹⁶ and keep your conscience clear, so that those who abuse your upright Christian conduct may be made ashamed of their slanders.

²¹ Baptism, which corresponds to it, now saves you also (not as the mere removing of physical stain, but as the craving for a conscience right with God)—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

⁸ Above all keep your love for one another strong, because love covers up a host of sins.

⁷ piety with a spirit of brotherhood, and the spirit of brotherhood with love.

³ And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.

²³ His command is this—that we are to believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he has commanded us to do.

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. ⁹ God's love for us has been revealed in this way—that God has sent his only Son into the world, to let us have life through him. ¹⁰ The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts. ¹³ This is the way we know that we keep in union with him and he does with us—because he has given us some of his Spirit. ¹⁴ We have seen and can testify that the Father has sent the Son to be Savior of the world.