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Bible Verses About Conscience

This collection includes 50 passages about Conscience. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

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I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

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But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

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Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

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Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

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How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

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But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

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Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

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For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

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Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

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For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

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Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

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Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

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For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

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And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

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Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

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Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?

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But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

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If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

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For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

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Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

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If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

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If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

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He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

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For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

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But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

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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.

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Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

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And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:

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Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

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Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

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For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

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Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

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Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

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If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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