having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.
For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.
and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—
So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.
holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith,
But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
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