100 Bible Verses about Conscience

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 3,057 helpful votes

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.

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 3,016 helpful votes

The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

1 Timothy 1:19 ESV / 2,919 helpful votes

Holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith,

Hebrews 13:18 ESV / 2,892 helpful votes

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.

1 Peter 3:16 ESV / 2,846 helpful votes

Having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

Acts 23:1 ESV / 2,846 helpful votes

And looking intently at the council, Paul said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day.”

Romans 2:15 ESV / 2,728 helpful votes

They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them

Titus 1:15 ESV / 2,600 helpful votes

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.

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 2,541 helpful votes

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.

1 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 2,450 helpful votes

Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

Romans 13:5 ESV / 2,322 helpful votes

Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.

1 Timothy 4:1-2 ESV / 2,094 helpful votes

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

Acts 24:16 ESV / 2,093 helpful votes

So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.

Isaiah 30:21 ESV / 2,090 helpful votes

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

Romans 9:1 ESV / 1,982 helpful votes

I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 1,932 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

1 John 1:9 ESV / 1,918 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

2 Corinthians 1:12 ESV / 1,898 helpful votes

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.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 1,866 helpful votes

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,

1 Corinthians 8:7 ESV / 1,837 helpful votes

However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

1 Timothy 3:9 ESV / 1,810 helpful votes

They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

1 John 2:27 ESV / 1,778 helpful votes

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Romans 2:14-15 ESV / 1,752 helpful votes

For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them

John 8:9 ESV / 1,748 helpful votes

But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

1 Corinthians 8:12 ESV / 1,694 helpful votes

Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

1 Peter 2:19 ESV / 1,679 helpful votes

For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 1,657 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 1,616 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

2 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 1,600 helpful votes

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.

1 Corinthians 8:10 ESV / 1,509 helpful votes

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?

Hebrews 9:9 ESV / 1,488 helpful votes

(which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,

2 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 1,444 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 1,409 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Romans 14:23 ESV / 1,385 helpful votes

But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,362 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Proverbs 20:27 ESV / 1,357 helpful votes

The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.

1 John 3:21 ESV / 1,302 helpful votes

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

Job 27:6 ESV / 1,279 helpful votes

I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

2 Timothy 1:3 ESV / 1,234 helpful votes

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.

Romans 14:22 ESV / 1,218 helpful votes

The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.

Romans 2:14 ESV / 1,199 helpful votes

For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

Hebrews 10:2 ESV / 1,154 helpful votes

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

1 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 1,149 helpful votes

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

Romans 1:28-32 ESV / 1,117 helpful votes

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

1 Corinthians 10:28 ESV / 1,102 helpful votes

But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience—

Romans 14:3 ESV / 1,068 helpful votes

Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.

Romans 8:7 ESV / 1,023 helpful votes

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

Romans 14:13 ESV / 1,019 helpful votes

Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 1,015 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Genesis 42:21 ESV / 1,001 helpful votes

Then they said to one another, “In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”

Romans 14:2 ESV / 991 helpful votes

One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

John 16:2 ESV / 976 helpful votes

They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

1 John 3:20 ESV / 957 helpful votes

For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.

Romans 14:14 ESV / 945 helpful votes

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 927 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Corinthians 10:29 ESV / 920 helpful votes

I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience?

Romans 1:28 ESV / 893 helpful votes

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

Romans 14:5 ESV / 890 helpful votes

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

James 4:17 ESV / 889 helpful votes

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Romans 1:24 ESV / 876 helpful votes

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

Romans 7:23 ESV / 870 helpful votes

But I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

Romans 14:21 ESV / 855 helpful votes

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Romans 14:22-23 ESV / 828 helpful votes

The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves. But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 821 helpful votes

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. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— ...

1 Corinthians 8:8 ESV / 818 helpful votes

Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 799 helpful votes

I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Romans 2:4 ESV / 773 helpful votes

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

1 Corinthians 8:13 ESV / 739 helpful votes

Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

James 1:5 ESV / 688 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Romans 8:16 ESV / 687 helpful votes

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Romans 14:20 ESV / 663 helpful votes

Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 652 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Romans 14:8 ESV / 641 helpful votes

For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

James 4:2 ESV / 638 helpful votes

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

1 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 614 helpful votes

But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

1 Corinthians 10:25-29 ESV / 557 helpful votes

Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.” If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience?

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 553 helpful votes

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Romans 14:16 ESV / 551 helpful votes

So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil.

Romans 12:3 ESV / 545 helpful votes

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

1 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 543 helpful votes

And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

John 14:26 ESV / 540 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 535 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Mark 2:8 ESV / 528 helpful votes

And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts?

Acts 26:9 ESV / 509 helpful votes

“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

1 Corinthians 8:2 ESV / 507 helpful votes

If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

1 Corinthians 10:1-33 ESV / 506 helpful votes

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. ...

1 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 486 helpful votes

Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

1 Timothy 1:3 ESV / 478 helpful votes

As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,

Romans 14:1 ESV / 477 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 473 helpful votes

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Genesis 26:10 ESV / 454 helpful votes

Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

Romans 2:2 ESV / 435 helpful votes

We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.

Matthew 27:3 ESV / 430 helpful votes

Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,

Romans 14:19 ESV / 423 helpful votes

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 417 helpful votes

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Hebrews 5:14 ESV / 399 helpful votes

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 398 helpful votes

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,

Romans 1:2 ESV / 372 helpful votes

Which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

1 Corinthians 8:3 ESV / 367 helpful votes

But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.

1 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 365 helpful votes

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

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