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 you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• 1 Pet 3:15–16But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
• 1 Tim 6:9But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
• Titus 1:9holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
• Rev 3:8“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.
• 2 Tim 4:4and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.
• 1 Cor 11:19For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
• 2 Tim 3:1–6But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
• 2 Pet 2:1–3But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
• Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
• Heb 6:4–6For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
• Gal 1:6–8I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;
• 1 Tim 1:5but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
• Phil 3:18–19For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
• Gal 5:4You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
• 1 Tim 6:21which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
• 1 Tim 4:1–2But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
• 2 Pet 2:12–22But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
• Jude 1:10–13But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
• Matt 6:27“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

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