'Conscience' in the Bible

Did Abraham not say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!"

Then in the dream God replied to him, "Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. That is why I have kept you from sinning against me and why I did not allow you to touch her.

Afterward David's conscience bothered him because he had cut off an edge of Saul's robe.

Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the Lord has granted my lord success, please remember your servant."

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

"I hate divorce," says the Lord God of Israel, "and the one who is guilty of violence," says the Lord who rules over all. "Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful."

Paul looked directly at the council and said, "Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God to this day."

This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.

They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,

I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit --

Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath of the authorities but also because of your conscience.

But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.

For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience be "strengthened" to eat food offered to idols?

If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.

But if someone says to you, "This is from a sacrifice," do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience --

I do not mean yours but the other person's. For why is my freedom being judged by another's conscience?

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God -- not by human wisdom but by the grace of God -- we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.

But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

To do this you must hold firmly to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck in regard to the faith.

holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.

This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to conduct ourselves rightly in every respect.

For this finds God's favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.

Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.

And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you -- not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,

that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,