Biblical
Concept: Conscience
Findings:
Paul: “good conscience before God”
Paul: “blameless conscience”
Gentiles: “conscience bearing witness”
Paul: “my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit.”
subjection … conscience sake
“their conscience being weak is defiled”
Idol, conscience, defiled.
Idol’s temple, conscience.
“wounding their conscience”
meat market, conscience.
meat market versus temple
Conscience: temple / meat market / home.
skip idol meat
Guide: Unbelievers’ conscience.
“testimony of our conscience”
Spiritual Idealism: Inclusive
conscience.
“commending ourselves to every man's conscience”
“goal of our instruction” … “good conscience”
good conscience versus ship wreck
Christian life, conscience,
relationship.
Faith, rejected, conscience, ship wreck,
relationship.
“clear conscience”
“seared in their own conscience”
Fallen angels,
seared conscience, relationship.
Paul: clear conscience.
Unbelieving: “mind and their conscience are defiled.”
“perfect in conscience”
Salvation, conscience, relationship.
Christian life, conscience,
relationship.
“cleanse your conscience”
“hearts sprinkled clean from an
evil conscience”
“we have a good conscience”
1 Peter 2:19 For this finds favor,
if for the sake of conscience toward
God a man
bears up under sorrows
when suffering unjustly.
“keep a good conscience”
“appeal to God for a good conscience”
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NAS Acts 23:1 And Paul, looking intently
at the Council, said, "Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly
good conscience before God up to
this day." (Paul: “good conscience
before God”)
NAS Acts 24:16 "In view of this, I
also do my best to maintain always a blameless conscience both before God and before men. (Paul: “blameless
conscience”)
NAS Romans 2:15 in that they show the
work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and their thoughts alternately
accusing or else defending them, (Gentiles: “conscience bearing witness”) (Romans 2:14 For when Gentiles
who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not
having the Law, are a law to themselves,)
NAS Romans 9:1 I am telling the truth in
Christ, I am not lying, my conscience bearing
me witness in the Holy Spirit, (Paul: “my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit.”)
NAS Romans 13:5 Wherefore it is necessary
to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake.
(subjection … conscience sake)
NAS 1 Corinthians 8:7 However not all
men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food
as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. (“their conscience being weak is defiled”) (Idol, conscience, defiled.)
NAS 1 Corinthians 8:10 For if someone
sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be
strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols? (Idol’s temple, conscience.)
NAS 1 Corinthians 8:12 And thus, by
sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. (“wounding
their conscience”)
NAS 1 Corinthians 10:25 Eat anything
that is sold in the meat market, without asking questions for conscience' sake;
(meat market, conscience.) (meat market versus temple)
NAS 1 Corinthians 10:27 If one of the
unbelievers invites you, and you wish to go, eat anything that is set before
you, without asking questions for conscience' sake. (Conscience: temple / meat market
/ home.)
NAS 1 Corinthians 10:28 But if anyone
should say to you, "This is meat sacrificed to idols," do not eat it,
for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience' sake;
(skip idol meat) (Guide: Unbelievers’ conscience.)
NAS 1 Corinthians 10:29 I mean not your
own conscience, but the other man's;
for why is my freedom judged by another's conscience? (1 Corinthians 10:28
28 But if anyone should say to
you, "This is meat sacrificed to idols," do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed
you, and for conscience' sake;) (Guide: Unbelievers’
conscience.)
NAS 2 Corinthians 1:12 For our proud
confidence is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly
wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially
toward you. (“testimony of our conscience”)
(Spiritual Idealism: Inclusive conscience.)
NAS 2 Corinthians 4:2 but we have
renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or
adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending
ourselves to every man's conscience in
the sight of God. (“commending ourselves to every man's conscience”) (Spiritual Idealism: Inclusive conscience.)
NAS 1 Timothy 1:5 But the goal of our
instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. (“goal of our instruction” … “good
conscience”)
NAS 1 Timothy 1:19 keeping faith and a
good conscience, which some have
rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith. (good conscience
versus ship wreck.) (Christian life, conscience, relationship.) (Faith, rejected,
conscience, ship wreck, relationship.)
NAS 1 Timothy 3:9 but holding to
the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.
(“clear conscience”) (Deacons / v.8
/ clear conscience.)
NAS 1 Timothy 4:2 by means of the
hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience
as with a branding iron, (“seared in their own conscience”) (1 Timothy 4:1 but the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some
will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and
doctrines of demons,) (Fallen angels, seared conscience, relationship.)
NAS 2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I
serve with a clear conscience the
way my forefathers did, as I constantly remember you in my prayers
night and day, (“clear conscience”)
(Paul: clear conscience.)
NAS Titus 1:15 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. (Unbelieving: “mind and their conscience
are defiled.”)
NAS Hebrews 9:9 which is a symbol
for the present time. Accordingly both gifts and
sacrifices are offered which cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience, (“perfect in conscience”) (Salvation, conscience,
relationship.) (Christian life, conscience, relationship.)
NAS Hebrews 9:14 how much more will the
blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish
to God, cleanse your conscience from
dead works to serve the living God? (“cleanse your conscience”) (Salvation, conscience, relationship.) (Christian
life, conscience, relationship.)
NAS Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near with
a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean
from an evil conscience and
our bodies washed with pure water. (“hearts sprinkled clean from an evil
conscience”) (Salvation,
conscience, relationship.) (Christian life, conscience, relationship.)
NAS Hebrews 13:18 Pray for us, for we
are sure that we have a good conscience,
desiring to conduct ourselves honorably in all things. (“we have a good conscience”) (Christian life,
conscience, relationship.)
NAS 1 Peter 2:19 For this finds favor,
if for the sake of conscience toward
God a man bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly. (All) (Christian
life, conscience, relationship.)
NAS 1 Peter 3:16 and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in
which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be
put to shame. (“keep a good conscience”)
(Christian life, conscience, relationship.)
NAS 1 Peter 3:21 And corresponding to that,
baptism now saves you-- not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal
to God for a good conscience-- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, (“appeal
to God for a good conscience”) (Salvation, conscience, relationship.)
(Christian life, conscience, relationship.)