1 Timothy 1:5

The aim of Paul's instruction is love flowing from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith. It shows that right doctrine is meant to produce genuine love, not mere argument.

Cross-references · 38

• 1 Tim 1:19holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• 2 Tim 2:22Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Gal 5:13–14For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
• 2 Tim 1:5I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.
• 2 Tim 1:3I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as did my forefathers, as I constantly remember you night and day in my prayers.
• Mark 12:28–34Now one of the scribes had come up and heard their debate. Noticing how well Jesus had answered them, he asked Him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”
• 1 Pet 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
• 1 Pet 3:16keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.
• Rom 10:4For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.
• 1 Pet 3:21And 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,
• 2 Pet 1:7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
• 1 Tim 3:9They must hold to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
• Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
• 2 Cor 1:12And 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.
• Rom 13:8–10Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
• Acts 23:1Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”
• 1 Jn 4:7–14Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
• 1 Pet 4:8Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
• Matt 12:35The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.
• Acts 24:16In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
• Matt 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
• 1 Cor 8:1–3Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
• 1 Cor 13:1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
• Heb 10:22let 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.
• Rom 14:15If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.
• Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
• Ps 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.
• Rom 9:1I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.
• Jas 4:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• Heb 9:14how 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!
• 1 Jn 3:3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
• 1 Jn 3:23And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
• Heb 13:18Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.
• Jer 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
• Heb 11:5–6By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

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