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.

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• 1 Tim 1:19holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• 2 Tim 2:22Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Gal 5:13–14For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
• 2 Tim 1:5having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
• 2 Tim 1:3I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
• Mark 12:28–34One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?”
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• 1 Pet 3:16having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
• Rom 10:4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
• 1 Pet 3:21This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you — not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• 2 Pet 1:7and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
• 1 Tim 3:9holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
• Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
• 2 Cor 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
• Rom 13:8–10Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
• Acts 23:1Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”
• 1 Jn 4:7–14Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
• 1 Pet 4:8And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
• Matt 12:35The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.
• Acts 24:16Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
• Matt 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
• 1 Cor 8:1–3Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
• 1 Cor 13:1If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
• Heb 10:22let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
• Rom 14:15Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
• Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
• Ps 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
• Rom 9:1I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me 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 without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• 1 Jn 3:3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
• 1 Jn 3:23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
• Heb 13:18Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
• Jer 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
• Heb 11:5–6By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

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