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Table of Contents
Key Verse
- So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man. Acts 24:16 NIV 1984
Insights
1. Everyone has a conscience
- They show that the essential requirements of the Law are written in their hearts; and their conscience [their sense of right and wrong, their moral choices] bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or perhaps defending them Romans 2:15 AMP
2. Example of good conscience
- Afterward, David was conscience-stricken for having cut off a corner of his robe. 1 Samuel 24:5 NIV
- David was conscience-stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, LORD, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.” 2 Samuel 24:10 NIV
3. Living with a good conscience
- Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, “My brothers, I have fulfilled my duty to God in all good conscience to this day.” Acts 23:1 NIV 1984
4. Sinful surroundings a torment to conscience
- (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) 2 Peter 2:8 NKJV
5. Persistent backsliding searing conscience
- But the [Holy] Spirit explicitly and unmistakably declares that in later times some will turn away from the faith, paying attention instead to deceitful and seductive spirits and doctrines of demons, [misled] by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared as with a branding iron [leaving them incapable of ethical functioning] 1 Timothy 4:1-2 AMP
