“AVOID SHIPWRECK” KEEP A CLEAR CONSCIENCE
ACT 24:16
AND HEREIN DO I EXERCISE MYSELF, TO HAVE ALWAYS A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARD GOD, AND TOWARD MEN.
FOOT NOTES: KJ
A CLEAR CONSCIENCE IS LISTED IN SCRIPTURE AS ONE OF OUR ESSENTIAL WEAPONS FOR A SUCCESSFUL SPIRITUAL LIFE AND MINISTRY.
A GOOD CONSCIENCE INVOLES AN INNER FREEDOM OF SPIRIT THAT COMES WHEN WE KNOW THAT GOD IS NOT OFFENDED BY OUR THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS.
WHEN A GOOD CONSCIENCE IS CORRUPTED, ONE’S FAITH, PRAYER LIFE, AND COMMUNION WITH GOD ARE SERIOUSLY DAMAGED.
IF PEOPLE REJECT A GOOD CONSCIENCE, THAT WILL RESULT IN THE SHIPWRECK OF THEIR FAITH
1 TIMOTHY 1:19
KEEPING FAITH AND A GOOD CONSCIENCE,
WHICH SOME HAVE REJECTED AND SUFFERED SHIPWRECK IN REGARD TO THEIR FAITH.
ACTS 23:1
AND PAUL, EARNESTLY BEHOLDING THE COUNCIL, SAID,
MEN AND BRETHREN,
I HAVE LIVED IN ALL GOOD CONSCIENCE BEFORE GOD UNTIL THIS DAY.
1 PETER 3:16 NAS
AND KEEP A GOOD CONSCIENCE SO THAT IN THE THING IN WHICH YOU ARE SLANDERED, THOSE WHO REVILE YOUR GOOD BEHAVIOR IN CHRIST
WILL BE PUT TO SHAME.
NAS FOOT NOTES
PUT TO SHAME: BECAUSE IT IS SHOWN TO BE OBVIOUSLY UNTRUE AND BECAUSE THE BELIEVER’S LOVING ATTITUDE PUTS THE OPPONENT’S BITTERNESS IN A BAD LIGHT.
1 PETER 2:23 NIV JESUS
WHEN THEY HURLED THEIR INSULTS AT HIM, HE DID NOT RETALIATE;
WHEN HE SUFFERED, HE MADE NO THREATS. INSTEAD, HE ENTRUSTED HIMSELF TO HIM WHO JUDGES JUSTLY.
PAUL 1 THESSALONIANS 2:10
YOU ARE WITNESSES, AND SO IS GOD, OF HOW HOLY, RIGHTEOUS AND BLAMELESS WE WERE AMONG YOU WHO BELIEVED.
2 COR 7:1
SINCE WE HAVE THESE PROMISES, DEAR FRIENDS,
LET US PURIFY OURSELVES FROM EVERYTHING THAT CONTAMINATES BODY AND SPIRIT, PERFECTING HOLINESS OUT OF REVERENCE FOR GOD.
NAS: PERFECTING HOLINESS IN THE FEAR OF GOD.
1JOHN 3:21
BELOVED, IF OUR HEART DOES NOT CONDEMN US,
WE HAVE CONFIDENCE BEFORE GOD.
THE ENEMY WOULD LOVE TO PUT US UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF A QUILTY CONSCIENCE. SHIPWRECKING OUR CONFIDENCE IN GOD.
THERE IS POWER IN A CLEAN CONSCIENCE
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