CONSCIENCE

Passages on this topic · 179

• Genesis 3:7

  Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

• Genesis 3:8

  They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

• Genesis 12:18

  Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

• Genesis 12:19

  Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”

• Genesis 26:9

  Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”

• Genesis 26:10

  Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”

• Genesis 26:11

  Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

• Genesis 31:39

  That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

• Genesis 33:1

  Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants.

• Genesis 33:2

  He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

• Genesis 33:3

  He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

• Genesis 33:4

  Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

• Genesis 33:5

  He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

• Genesis 33:6

  Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

• Genesis 33:7

  Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

• Genesis 33:8

  Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”

• Genesis 33:9

  Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”

• Genesis 33:10

  Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

• Genesis 33:11

  Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.

• Genesis 33:12

  Esau said, “Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you.”

• Genesis 39:7

  After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

• Genesis 39:8

  But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

• Genesis 39:9

  No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

• Genesis 39:10

  As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

• Genesis 39:11

  About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.

• Genesis 39:12

  She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

• Genesis 42:21

  They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

• Genesis 44:16

  Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

• Exodus 9:27

  Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

• Judges 17:2

  He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”

• 1 Samuel 24:5

  Afterward, David’s heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.

• 2 Samuel 24:10

  David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

• 2 Samuel 40:11
• 2 Samuel 40:12
• 1 Kings 13:29

  The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury him.

• 1 Kings 13:30

  He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”

• 1 Kings 13:31

  After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

• 1 Kings 13:32

  For the saying which he cried by Yahweh’s word against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen.”

• 2 Kings 7:8

  When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried away silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried things from there also, and went and hid them.

• 2 Kings 7:9

  Then they said to one another, “We aren’t doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let’s go and tell the king’s household.”

• 2 Kings 7:10

  So they came and called to the city gatekeepers; and they told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, not even a man’s voice, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:1

  Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 21:2

  David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:3

  Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”

• 1 Chronicles 21:4

  Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 21:5

  Joab gave up the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.

• 1 Chronicles 21:6

  But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

• 1 Chronicles 21:7

  God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.

• Nehemiah 5:15

  But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

• Job 15:21

  A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

• Job 15:24

  Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

• Job 27:6

  I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

• Psalms 51:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

• Psalms 51:2

  Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

• Psalms 51:3

  For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

• Psalms 51:4

  Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

• Psalms 51:7

  Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

• Psalms 51:8

  Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

• Psalms 51:9

  Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

• Psalms 51:10

  Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

• Psalms 51:11

  Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.

• Psalms 51:12

  Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

• Psalms 51:13

  Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.

• Psalms 51:14

  Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

• Psalms 73:21

  For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

• Proverbs 16:25

  There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

• Proverbs 20:12

  The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

• Proverbs 28:1

  The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

• Proverbs 30:20

  “So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

• Isaiah 59:9

  Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

• Isaiah 59:10

  We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

• Isaiah 59:11

  We all roar like bears, and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

• Isaiah 59:12

  For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

• Isaiah 59:13

  transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

• Isaiah 59:14

  Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.

• Jeremiah 6:15

  Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down,” says Yahweh.

• Daniel 1:8

  But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

• Amos 6:1

  Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

• Amos 6:3

  Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

• Amos 6:4

  Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall;

• Amos 6:5

  who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

• Amos 6:6

  who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

• Matthew 5:15

  Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

• Matthew 5:16

  Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

• Matthew 6:22

  “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

• Matthew 6:23

  But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

• Matthew 14:1

  At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

• Matthew 14:2

  and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.”

• Matthew 26:75

  Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” He went out and wept bitterly.

• Matthew 27:3

  Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

• Matthew 27:4

  saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

• Matthew 27:5

  He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

• Mark 6:14

  King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, “John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.”

• Mark 6:16

  But Herod, when he heard this, said, “This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead.”

• Mark 14:72

  The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.

• Luke 9:7

  Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

• Luke 11:33

  “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

• Luke 11:34

  The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

• Luke 11:35

  Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.

• Luke 11:36

  If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

• Luke 22:62

  He went out, and wept bitterly.

• John 8:9

  They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

• John 16:2

  They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

• John 16:3

  They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

• Acts 2:37

  Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

• Acts 4:19

  But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

• Acts 4:20

  for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

• Acts 5:29

  But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

• Acts 23:1

  Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

• Acts 24:16

  Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

• Romans 1:21

  Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

• Romans 1:22

  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

• Romans 1:23

  and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

• Romans 1:24

  Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

• Romans 1:25

  who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

• Romans 2:14

  (for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

• Romans 2:15

  in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

• Romans 7:15

  For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

• Romans 7:16

  But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

• Romans 7:17

  So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

• Romans 7:18

  For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

• Romans 7:19

  For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

• Romans 7:20

  But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

• Romans 7:21

  I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

• Romans 7:22

  For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

• Romans 7:23

  but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

• Romans 9:1

  I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

• Romans 14:1

  Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

• Romans 14:2

  One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

• Romans 14:3

  Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

• Romans 14:4

  Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

• Romans 14:5

  One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

• Romans 14:6

  He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

• Romans 14:7

  For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

• Romans 14:8

  For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

• Romans 14:9

  For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

• Romans 14:10

  But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

• Romans 14:11

  For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”

• Romans 14:12

  So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

• Romans 14:13

  Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

• Romans 14:14

  I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

• Romans 14:15

  Yet 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.

• Romans 14:16

  Then don’t let your good be slandered,

• Romans 14:17

  for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

• Romans 14:18

  For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

• Romans 14:19

  So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

• Romans 14:20

  Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

• Romans 14:21

  It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

• Romans 14:22

  Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

• Romans 14:23

  But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

• 1 Corinthians 8:7

  However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

• 1 Corinthians 8:8

  But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

• 1 Corinthians 8:9

  But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

• 1 Corinthians 8:10

  For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

• 1 Corinthians 8:11

  And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

• 1 Corinthians 8:12

  Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 8:13

  Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

• 1 Corinthians 10:32

  Give no occasion for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

• 2 Corinthians 1:12

  For 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.

• 2 Corinthians 4:2

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

• 2 Corinthians 5:11

  Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

• Ephesians 4:17

  This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

• Ephesians 4:18

  being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

• Ephesians 4:19

  who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

• 1 Timothy 1:5

  but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

• 1 Timothy 1:19

  holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;

• 1 Timothy 3:9

  holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

• 1 Timothy 4:2

  through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

• Titus 1:15

  To 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.

• Hebrews 9:14

  how 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?

• Hebrews 10:22

  let’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,

• Hebrews 10:26

  For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

• Hebrews 10:27

  but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

• Hebrews 13:18

  Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

• 1 Peter 2:19

  For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

• 1 Peter 3:16

  having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

• 1 Peter 3:21

  This 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,

• 1 John 3:20

  because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

• 1 John 3:21

  Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;