Good grief, where is it NOT written in the Bible???
1 John 3:21-24
21 Beloved, if our heart (
conscience) does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. 22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. 23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment. 24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
John 8:9
Then those who heard
it, being convicted by
their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest
even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
Acts 23:1
[
The Jerusalem Jews Plot to Kill Paul ] Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, “Men
and brethren, I have lived in all good
conscience before God until this day.”
Acts 24:16
This
being so, I myself always strive to have a
conscience without offense toward God and men.
Romans 2:15
who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their
conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves
their thoughts accusing or else excusing
them)
Romans 9:1
[
Israel’s Rejection of Christ ] I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my
conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,
Romans 13:5
Therefore
you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for
conscience’ sake.
Romans 14:21-23
21
It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor
do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak. 22 Do you have faith? Have
it to yourself before God. Happy
is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. 23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because
he does not
eat from faith; for whatever
is not from faith is sin.
1 Corinthians 8:1
[
Be Sensitive to Conscience ] Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
1 Corinthians 8:7
However,
there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat
it as a thing offered to an idol; and their
conscience, being weak, is defiled.
1 Corinthians 8:10
For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not the
conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?
1 Corinthians 8:12
But when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak
conscience, you sin against Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:25
Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for
conscience’ sake;
1 Corinthians 10:27
If any of those who do not believe invites you
to dinner, and you desire to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for
conscience’ sake.
1 Corinthians 10:28
But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” do not eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for
conscience’ sake; for “the earth
is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”
1 Corinthians 10:29
“
Conscience,” I say, not your own, but that of the other. For why is my liberty judged by another
man’s conscience?
2 Corinthians 1:12
[
Paul’s Sincerity ] For our boasting is this: the testimony of our
conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.
2 Corinthians 3:3
clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us,
written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not
on tablets of stone but
on tablets of flesh,
that is, of the
heart. (conscience)
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 manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s
conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 5:11
Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your
consciences.
1 Timothy 1:5
Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart,
from a good
conscience, and
from sincere faith,
1 Timothy 1:19
having faith and a good
conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck,
1 Timothy 3:9
holding the mystery of the faith with a pure
conscience.
1 Timothy 4:2
speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own
conscience seared with a hot iron,
2 Timothy 1:3
[
Timothy’s Faith and Heritage ] I thank God, whom I serve with a pure
conscience, as
my forefathers
did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,
Titus 1:15
To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and
conscience are defiled.
Hebrews 9:9
It
was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the
conscience—
Hebrews 9:14
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews 10:22
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Hebrews 13:18
[
Prayer Requested ] Pray for us; for we are confident that we have a good
conscience, in all things desiring to live honorably.
1 Peter 2:19
For this
is commendable, if because of
conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.
1 Peter 3:16
having a good
conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.
1 Peter 3:21
There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good
conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,