CONSCIENCE
Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
JOB 27:6 I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it; my
conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
MAT 6:22 "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your
whole body will be full of light.
23 But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If
then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
LUK 11:33 "No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be
hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who
come in may see the light.
34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole
body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full
of darkness.
35 See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.
36 Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark,
it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you."
ACT 23:1 Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, "My brothers, I
have fulfilled my duty to God in all good conscience to this day."
24:16 So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.
ROM 2:14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature
things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they
do not have the law,
15 since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their
hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now
accusing, now even defending them.)
7:15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but
what I hate I do.
16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in
me.
18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For
I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
19 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want
to do--this I keep on doing.
20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but
it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there
with me.
22 For in my inner being I delight in God's law;
23 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war
against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at
work within my members.
9:1 I speak the truth in Christ--I am not lying, my conscience confirms it
in the Holy Spirit--
14:1 Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on
disputable matters.
2 One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose
faith is weak, eats only vegetables.
3 The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and
the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for
God has accepted him.
4 Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands
or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5 One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man
considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own
mind.
6 He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats
meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains,
does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.
7 For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself
alone.
8 If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So,
whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might
be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
10 You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on
your brother? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat.
11 It is written: "'As surely as I live,' says the Lord, 'every knee will
bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.'"
12 So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up
your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way.
14 As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is
unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him
it is unclean.
15 If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no
longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom
Christ died.
16 Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil.
17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of
righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,
18 because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and
approved by men.
19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to
mutual edification.
20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean,
but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to
stumble.
21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that
will cause your brother to fall.
22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and
God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves.
23 But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating
is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
1CO 8:7 But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed
to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been
sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
9 Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a
stumbling block to the weak.
10 For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you who have this knowledge
eating in an idol's temple, won't he be emboldened to eat what has been
sacrificed to idols?
11 So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your
knowledge.
12 When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak
conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will
never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.
10:27 If some unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat
whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience.
28 But if anyone says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice," then
do not eat it, both for the sake of the man who told you and for
conscience' sake--
29 the other man's conscience, I mean, not yours. For why should my
freedom be judged by another's conscience?
30 If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced
because of something I thank God for?
31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory
of God.
32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of
God--
2CO 1:12 Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have
conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you,
in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not
according to worldly wisdom but according to God's grace.
4:2 Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use
deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting
forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in
the sight of God.
5:11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade
men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your
conscience.
1TI 1:5 The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart
and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
19 holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and
so have shipwrecked their faith.
3:9 They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear
conscience.
HEB 9:14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences
from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
10:22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of
faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience
and having our bodies washed with pure water.
13:18 Pray for us. We are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire
to live honorably in every way.
1PE 2:19 For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust
suffering because he is conscious of God.
3:16 keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously
against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.
21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also--not the
removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward
God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1JO 3:20 whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our
hearts, and he knows everything.
21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence
before God
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