Then the LORD God shope man, even of the mold of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life. So man was made a living soul.

And when the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth, and that all the imagination and thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,

Make in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

{A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee, in a barren and dry land where no water is.

My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.

Put away displeasure out of thine heart, and remove evil from thy body: for childhood and youth is but vanity.

Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.

Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.

And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you. And will take away that stony heart out of your flesh, and give you a fleshly heart.

seeing that ye have brought into my Sanctuary strangers having uncircumcised hearts, and flesh, wherethrough my Sanctuary is defiled, when ye offer me bread, fat, and blood. Thus with all your abominations ye have broken my covenant,

Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Of all the strangers that dwell among the children of Israel, no stranger, whose heart and flesh is not circumcised, shall come within my Sanctuary:

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, breaking of wedlock, whoredom, theft, false witness-bearing, blasphemy.

Paul beheld the council and said, "Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day."

And therefore study I to have a clear conscience toward God, and toward man also.

which show the deed of the law written in their hearts: While their conscience beareth witness unto them, and also their thoughts, accusing one another, or excusing,

But I see another law in my members rebelling against the law of my mind, and subduing me unto the law of sin, which is in my members. O wretched man that I am: who shall deliver me from this body of death? read more. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord: So then I myself in my mind serve the law of God, and in my flesh the law of sin.

I say the truth in Christ, and lie not, in that whereof my conscience beareth me witness in the holy ghost,

And even for this cause pay ye tribute. For they are God's ministers, serving for the same purpose.

If I pray with tongues, my spirit prayeth: but my mind is without fruit. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and will pray with the mind also. I will sing with the spirit, and will sing with the mind also.

It is sown a natural body, and riseth a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body.

giving thanks unto the father which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of saints in light.

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving,

but hath opened his word at the time appointed, through preaching; which preaching is committed unto me, by the commandment of God our saviour.

For this cause left I thee in Crete: that thou shouldest perform that which was lacking and shouldest ordain elders in every city as I appointed thee.

Unto the pure, are all things pure: but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving, is nothing pure: but even the very minds and consciences of them are defiled.

Foolish questions, and genealogies, and brawlings and strife about the law; avoid, for they are unprofitable, and superfluous.

which was a similitude for the time then present, and in which were offered gifts and sacrifices that could not make them that minister perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

How much more shall the blood of Christ - which through the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot to God - purge your consciences from dead works, for to serve the living God?

let us draw nigh with a true heart in a full faith sprinkled in our hearts, from an evil conscience, and washed in our bodies with pure water,

Pray for us. We have confidence because we have a good conscience in all things, and desire to live honestly.