11 Bible Verses about Knowledge Of Good And Evil
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And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are not proper, being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness, vice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions, whisperers, evil speakers, haters of God, injurious, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,read more.
unintelligent, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful, who knowing the ordinance of God, that those who do such things deserve death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in those who do them.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately.
for when the nations which have not the law perform by nature [the commandments] of the law, these who have not the law are a law to themselves, and they show the work of the law written in their minds, their consciences testifying with them, and their judgments mutually acusing or defending one another;??16 in the day when God shall judge the secret [doings] of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.
For every one that does evil hates the light, and comes not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved;
And in this also I endeavor always to have a conscience without offense towards God and man.
I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness with the Holy Spirit,
For this is our rejoicing; the testimony of our conscience that in purity and godly sincerity, not with a carnal wisdom, but with a divine grace, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and most abundantly towards you.
But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned,
and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always ready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you; but with meekness and fear, having a good conscience, that in what they speak evil of you they may be ashamed who slander your good conduct in Christ.
Wherefore, laying aside lying let every one speak the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and sin not; let not the sun go down on your wrath, neither give place to the devil.read more.
Let him that has stolen steal no more, but rather let him labor, doing that which is good with his hands, that he may have to give to him that needs. Let no evil word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for useful edification, that it may afford benefit to those that hear. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed to the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice. But be kind one to another, merciful, giving one to another, as God also in Christ gave to you.
For what I do this I approve not; for I do not what I wish, but what I hate, this I do. But if what I wish not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good; and now I no longer do it, but the sin that dwells in me.read more.
For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not; for the good which I wish I do not, but the evil which I wish not this I do. But if what I wish not this I do, I no longer do it, but sin which dwells in me. I find therefore the law, that when I wish to do good evil is present with me; for I consent to the law of God as to my inward man, [my soul], but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members. Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord; therefore I myself with the mind serve the law of God, and with the flesh the law of sin.
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