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Conscience: Guilty 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: Guilty Psalm 51:1–4, 7–14

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. / Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. / For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

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Conscience: Guilty Psalm 73:21

When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,

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Conscience: Guilty Proverbs 28:1

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

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Conscience: Guilty Isaiah 59:9–14

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom. / Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead. / We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

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Conscience: Guilty Matthew 14:1, 2

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus / and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

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Conscience: Guilty Matthew 27:3–5

When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders. / “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.” / So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

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Conscience: Guilty Mark 6:14, 16

Now King Herod heard about this, for Jesus’ name had become well known, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.” / But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead!”

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Conscience: Guilty John 8:9

When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.

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Conscience: Guilty Acts 2:37

When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

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Conscience: Guilty 1 Timothy 4:2

influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

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Conscience: Guilty Titus 1:15

To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

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Conscience: Guilty 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: Guilty Hebrews 10:26, 27

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, / but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.

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