Quotes About Conscience

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

So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.

Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.

One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.

But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.

My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.

But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idolís temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?

By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,

If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.

But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—

the other oneís conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone elseís conscience?

And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every manís conscience in the sight of God.

Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.

Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.