1 Timothy 1:19

Timothy must hold to faith and a good conscience, which some rejected and so shipwrecked their faith. It warns that abandoning a clear conscience leads to spiritual ruin.

Cross-references · 23

• 1 Tim 3:9Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
• Rev 3:10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
• 1 Pet 3:15–16But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
• 1 Tim 6:9But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
• Titus 1:9Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
• Rev 3:8I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
• 2 Tim 4:4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
• 1 Cor 11:19For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
• 2 Tim 3:1–6This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
• 2 Pet 2:1–3But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
• Heb 3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
• Heb 6:4–6For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
• Gal 1:6–8I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
• 1 Tim 1:5Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
• Phil 3:18–19(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
• Gal 5:4Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
• 1 Tim 6:21Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
• 1 Tim 4:1–2Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
• 2 Pet 2:12–22But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
• Jude 1:10–13But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
• Matt 6:27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

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