Reference: Psychology
Hastings
The Bible does not contain a science of psychology in the modern sense; but there is a definite and consistent view of man's nature from the religious standpoint. This being recognized, the old dispute, whether it teaches the bipartite or the tripartite nature of man, loses its meaning, for the distinction of soul and spirit is not a division of man into soul and spirit along with his body or flesh, but a difference of point of view
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And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee; my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh longs for thee in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water;
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing to the living God.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was before and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was before and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh to be in my sanctuary to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
Thus hath the Lord GOD said; No son of a stranger, uncircumcised in heart nor uncircumcised in flesh shall enter into my sanctuary, of any sons of strangers that are among the sons of Israel.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Then Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
And for this reason do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men.
which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, accusing and also excusing their reasonings one with another)
but I see another law in my members which rebels against the law of my mind, bringing captive unto the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? read more. The grace of God, by Jesus, the Christ, our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,
For this cause ye also pay them tribute, for they are God's ministers, attending continually to this very thing.
For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
it is sown a natural body, it shall be raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
giving thanks unto the Father, who has made us worthy to participate in the inheritance of the saints in light,
For ye are dead and your life is hid with the Christ in God.
Persevere in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving,
and has manifested in due times. It is his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou should correct that which is lacking and set in place elders in every city, as I had commanded thee:
For unto the pure all things are pure, but unto those that are defiled and unfaithful, nothing is pure, but even their soul and conscience is defiled.
But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and debates concerning the law, for they are unprofitable and vain.
Which was a figure of that time present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience,
how much more shall the blood of the Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from the works of death to serve the living God?
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts purified from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water;
Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience in all things desiring to conduct ourselves well.