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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Job 15:21, 24

Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him. / Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Job 27:6

I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 20:12

Ears that hear and eyes that see—the LORD has made them both.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 5:15, 16

Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. / In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 6:22, 23

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. / 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!

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 11:33–36

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a basket. Instead, he sets it on a stand, so those who enter can see the light. / 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 is full of darkness. / Be careful, then, that the light within you is not darkness.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 23:1

Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 24:16

In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 2:14, 15

Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. / So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 7:15–22, 23

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do. / And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good. / In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 9:1

I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 14:1–23

Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions. / For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables. / The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 8:7–13

But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. / But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do. / Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 10:32

Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 1:12

And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 4:2

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Timothy 1:5, 19

The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith. / holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Timothy 3:9

They must hold to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Peter 2:19

For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended.

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Peter 3:16, 21

keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ. / And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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Conscience: General Scriptures Concerning 1 John 3:20, 21

Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things. / Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,

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