Bible verses about "conscience" | Living_Oracles

¹ And Paul, looking attentively on the Sanhedrim, said, Brethren, I have, even to this day, lived in all good conscience toward God-

¹ I speak the truth in Christ, I do not speak falsely, my conscience bearing me witness, in the Holy Spirit,

⁵ Wherefore, it is necessary for you to be subject, not only on account of punishment, but also on account of conscience.

²⁷ but the unction which you have received from him abides in you; and you have no need that any one should teach you, unless the same unction teaches you concerning all things, and is truth, and is no lie: and as it has taught you, you will abide in him.

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, through an Eternal Spirit, offered himself without fault, to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

¹ But the Spirit expressly says, that in future times some will apostatize from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits, and to doctrines concerning demons; ² through the hypocrisy of liars, who are seared in their own conscience;

¹⁸ Pray for us; for we are confident that we have a good conscience, willing in all things to behave well.

¹⁶ Hold fast a good conscience, that, whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may be put to shame who arraign your good behavior in Christ.

¹ Receive him who is weak in the faith, without regard to differences of opinions. ² One, indeed, believes he may eat everything; but he who is weak eats herbs only. ³ Let not him who eats, despise him who eats not; and let not him who eats not, condemn him who eats: for God has received him. ⁴ Who are you that condemn another man's servant? By his own master he stands or falls; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand. ⁵ One, indeed, thinks one day more holy than another: but another thinks every day alike. Let every one be convinced in his own mind. ⁶ He who observes the day, observe it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day to the Lord, does not observe it: he who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. ⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. ⁸ But whether we live, we live to the Lord; and whether we die, we die to the Lord: whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. ⁹ For to this end, Christ both dies and rose, and lives again, that he might rule over both the dead and the living. ¹⁰ But you, why do you condemn your brother? and you, also, why do you despise your brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment seat of Christ. ¹¹ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, surely every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God." ¹² Well, then, every one of us shall give an account of himself to God. ¹³ Let us, therefore, no more judge one another; but let us decide, rather, not to lay an occasion of stumbling before a brother, or a cause of falling. ¹⁴ I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; yet, to him who accounts anything to be unclean, to that man it is unclean. ¹⁵ Now, if your brother be hurt through your meat, you no longer walk as love requires. Do not destroy him with your meat for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Let not your good, then, be an evil spoken of. ¹⁷ For the Reign of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy, in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ And he who, by these things, serves Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved by men. ¹⁹ Well, then, let us strive after peace, and mutual edification. ²⁰ Do not, for the sake of meat, destroy the work of God. All meats, indeed, are clean; but that meat is hurtful to the man who eats to occasion stumbling. ²¹ It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything by which your brother is made to stumble, or to fall, or is weakened. ²² You have faith: keep it to yourself, in the sight of God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. ²³ For he who discerns a difference, between meats is condemned, if he eat; because he eats not from faith: for what is not from faith is sin.

¹⁹ holding fast faith and a good conscience; which some have put away, with respect to the faith, having made shipwreck:

¹⁵ To the pure, all meats are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving, nothing is pure; for both their understanding and conscience are polluted.

²² let us draw near, with a true heart, in full assurance of faith-having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water,

⁵ (now the end of the charge is love, from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and unfeigned faith:

¹⁵ who show plainly the work of the law, written on their hearts; their conscience bearing witness, and also their reasonings between one another, when they accuse or excuse each other.