The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
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.
And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him.
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,
having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.
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.
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
And looking intently at the council, Paul said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day.”
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.
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.
and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.
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 in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
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