Verse 12
For our reioycyng is this, the testimonie of our conscience, that in simplicitie & godly purenesse, and not in fleshely wisdome, but by the grace of God, we haue had our conuersatio in the worlde, and most of all to you wardes.
Referenced Verses
- 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not as many are, whiche chop & chaunge with the word of God: but as of purenesse of God, in the syght of God, so speake we in Christe.
- 1 Cor 2:13 : 13 Which thynges also we speake, not in the wordes which mans wisedome teacheth, but which ye holy ghost teacheth, comparyng spirituall thynges with spirituall thynges.
- Heb 13:18 : 18 Pray for vs: For we trust we haue a good conscience, in all thynges wyllyng to lyue honestlie.
- Jas 3:13-18 : 13 Who is a wise man, and endued with knoweledge among you? let him shewe his workes out of good conuersation with mekenesse of wisdome. 14 But yf ye haue bitter enuiyng & strife in your hearte, glorie not, neither be lyers agaynst the trueth. 15 For such wisdome descendeth not fro aboue: but is earthlie, sensuall, and deuelishe. 16 For where enuiyng and strife is, there is sedition & all maner of euyll workes. 17 But the wisdome that is from aboue, is first pure, then peaseable, gentle, and easie to be entreated, full of mercie and good fruites, without iudgyng, without simulation: 18 Yea, and the fruite of ryghteousnes is sowen in peace, of the that make peace.
- 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But haue cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestie, and walke not in craftynesse, neither handle we the word of God disceitefully, but in openyng of the trueth, and report our selues to euery mans conscience in the syght of God.
- Job 23:10-12 : 10 But as for my way, he knoweth it, and tryeth me, that as the gold I may come foorth. 11 My foote doth kepe his path, his hie way haue I holden, and will not go out of it. 12 I will not forsake the commaundement of his lippes, I haue esteemed the wordes of his mouth more then myne appoynted foode.
- Acts 23:1 : 1 And Paul earnestlie beholdyng the counsell, saide: Men & brethren, I haue lyued in al good conscience before God vntyll this day.
- Acts 24:16 : 16 And herein studie I, to haue alway a cleare conscience toward God, and toward men.
- Rom 9:1 : 1 I say ye trueth in Christ, I lye not, my conscience also bearyng me witnesse by the holy ghost,
- Rom 16:18-19 : 18 For they that are suche, serue not the Lorde Iesus Christe, but their owne belly, and with sweete and flatteryng wordes deceaue the heartes of the innocentes. 19 For your obedience is gone abrode vnto al men. I am glad therfore no doubt, of you: But yet I would haue you wise vnto that whiche is good, & simple concernyng euyll.
- 1 Cor 2:4-5 : 4 And my wordes and my preachyng was not with entysing wordes of mans wisedome, but in shewyng of the spirite, and of power: 5 That your fayth should not stande in the wisedome of men, but in the power of God.
- Job 27:5-6 : 5 God forbyd that I should graunt your cause to be right: As for me, vntill myne end come will I neuer go fro myne innocentie. 6 My righteous dealing kepe I fast, which I will not forsake: my heart shal not reproue me of my dayes.
- Job 31:1-9 : 1 I made a couenaunt with myne eyes: why then should I loke vpon a mayden? 2 For how great a portion shall I haue of God? and what inheritaunce from the almightie on hye? 3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and straunge punishement to the workers of iniquitie? 4 Doth not he see my wayes, and tell all my goynges? 5 If I haue walked in vanitie, or if my feete haue runne to disceaue: 6 Let me be wayed in an euen balaunce, that God may see myne innocencie. 7 If my steppe hath turned out of the way, & myne heart walked after myne eyes, and if any blot haue cleaued to my handes: 8 Then shall I sowe, and an other eate: yea my posteritie shalbe cleane rooted out. 9 If my heart haue ben deceaued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at my neyghbours doore: 10 Then let my wife grinde vnto an other man, and let other men lye with her. 11 For this is a wickednesse, and sinne that is worthy to be punished: 12 Yea a fire that vtterly should consume and roote out all my increase. 13 If I euer thought scorne to do right vnto my seruauntes & maydens, when they had any matter against me: 14 When God will sit in iudgement, what shall I do? & when he will visite me, what aunswere shal I geue him? 15 He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shapen a like in our mothers bodies? 16 If I denied the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the wydow to wayte in vayne: 17 If I haue eaten my morsell alone, that ye fatherlesse hath not eaten therof: 18 (For from my youth it hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue ben guyde to the wydowe) 19 If I haue seene any perishe for want of clothing, or any poore for lake of rayment: 20 If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe: 21 If I haue lift vp mine hand against the fatherlesse, when I sawe that I might helpe him in the gate: 22 Then let myne arme fall fro my shoulder, and myne arme holes be broken from the bone. 23 For I haue euer feared the vengeaunce and punishment of God, and knewe very well that I was not able to beare his burthen. 24 Haue I put my trust in golde? or haue I sayde to the wedge of golde, thou art my confidence? 25 Haue I reioyced because my power was great, and because my hande gat so much? 26 Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysing of the sunne? or had I the goyng downe of the moone in great reputation? 27 Hath my heart medled priuyly with any disceite? or did I euer kisse myne owne hande? 28 (That were a wickednesse worthy to be punished: for then shoulde I haue denyed the God that is aboue.) 29 Haue I euer reioyced at the hurt of myne enemie? or was I euer glad that any harme happened vnto him? Oh, no. 30 I neuer suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse to his soule. 31 Dyd not the men of myne owne housholde say, Who shall let vs to haue our belly full of his fleshe? 32 The straunger dyd not lodge in the streete, but I opened my doores vnto him that went by the way. 33 Haue I kept secrete my sinne, and hyd myne iniquitie, as Adam dyd? 34 Though I coulde haue made afeard a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families dyd feare me: so I kept scilence, and went not out of the doore. 35 O that I had one which woulde heare me: beholde my signe in the whiche the almightie shal aunswere for me, though he that is my contrarie partie hath written a booke against me. 36 Yet will I take it vpon my shoulder, & as a garlande binde it about my head. 37 I will tell hym the number of my goinges, & go vnto him as to a prince. 38 But if case be that my lande crye against me, or that the forowes thereof make any complaynt: 39 If I haue eaten the fruites therof vnpayed for, yea if I haue greeued the soules of the maisters therof: 40 Then let thystles growe in steede of my wheate, and cockle for my barlye.
- Ps 7:3-5 : 3 O God my Lord, if I haue done any such thing: or if there be any wickednesse in my handes. 4 If I haue done euyll vnto hym that had peace with me: and if I haue not deliuered hym that is without a cause myne aduersarie? 5 Then let myne enemie persecute my soule and take me: yea, let hym put me to death, and lay myne honour in the dust. Selah.
- Ps 44:17-21 : 17 And though all this be come vpon vs: yet we do not forget thee, nor shewe our selues to be false in thy couenaunt. 18 Our heart is not turned backe, neither our steppes be declined out of thy pathes: 19 no not when thou hast smitten vs in the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadowe of death. 20 If we had forgotten the name of our Lorde, and holden vp our handes to any straunge god: 21 woulde not God searche it out? for he knoweth the very secretes of the heart.
- Isa 38:3 : 3 And sayde: Remember O Lorde I beseche thee, that I haue walked before thee in trueth and a stedfast heart, & haue done the thyng that is pleasaunt to thee. And Hezekia wept sore.
- 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 This say I not by commaundement, but because of ye feruentnesse of other, & alowing the vnfaynednes of your loue.
- 2 Cor 10:2-4 : 2 I beseche you, that I neede not to be bolde when I am present, with that same boldnesse, wherwith I am supposed to haue ben bolde, agaynst some, which repute vs as though we walked accordyng to the fleshe. 3 For though we walke in the fleshe, yet we do not warre according to ye flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnall, but myghtie through God, to cast downe strong holdes,
- 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I feare lest by any meanes, that as the serpent begyled Eue through his subtiltie, euen so your myndes shoulde be corrupted fro the singlenesse that is towarde Christe.
- 2 Cor 12:15-19 : 15 I wyll very gladly bestowe, & wylbe bestowed for your sakes, though the more aboundauntly I loue you, the lesse I am loued agayne. 16 But be it, that I was not chargeable vnto you: Neuerthelesse, when I was craftie, I caught you with guile. 17 Dyd I pyll you by any of them who I sent vnto you? 18 I desired Titus, and with hym I sent a brother: Dyd Titus defraude you of any thyng? Haue we not walked in the same spirite? not in the same steppes? 19 Agayne, thynke you that we excuse our selues vnto you? We speake in Christ in the syght of God: but we do all thinges dearely beloued, for your edifiyng.
- Gal 6:4 : 4 But let euery man proue his owne worke, & then shall he haue reioyceyng only in his owne selfe, and not in another.
- Eph 6:14 : 14 Stande therfore, hauyng loynes girt about with the trueth, and puttyng on the brest plate of righteousnesse,
- Phil 1:10 : 10 That ye maye discerne thynges that differ, that ye maye be pure, and without offence, tyll the day of Christe.
- 1 Thess 2:10 : 10 Ye are witnesses, & God also howe holyly, and iustly, and vnblameably, we behaued our selues among you that beleue.
- 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the ende of the commaundement, is loue out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, & of fayth vnfaigned.
- 1 Tim 1:19-20 : 19 Hauyng fayth and good conscience, which some hauyng put awaye as concernyng fayth, haue made shipwracke. 20 Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I haue delyuered vnto Satan, that they maye learne not to blaspheme.
- Titus 2:7 : 7 In all thynges shewyng thy selfe a paterne of good workes, in the doctrine, vncorruptnesse, grauitie, integritie,
- Jas 4:6 : 6 But the scripture offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, but geueth grace vnto ye lowlie.
- 1 Pet 3:16 : 16 And that with mekenesse and feare, hauyng a good conscience: that where as they backebite you as euyll doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conuersation in Christe.
- 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 To the which also the figure agreeth that nowe saueth vs, euen baptisme, not the puttyng away of the fylth of the fleshe, but in that a good conscience maketh request to God, by the resurrection of Iesus Christe:
- 1 John 3:19-22 : 19 Hereby we knowe that we are of the trueth, and shall assure our heartes before hym. 20 For yf our heart condempne vs, God is greater then our heart, and knoweth all thynges. 21 Dearely beloued, yf our heart condempne vs not, then haue we boldnesse towarde God. 22 And whatsoeuer we aske, we receaue of hym, because we kepe his commaundementes, and do those thynges which are pleasyng in his syght.
- 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I knowe nothing by my selfe, yet am I not thereby iustified: but he that iudgeth me is the Lorde.
- 1 Cor 5:8 : 8 Therefore let vs kepe holy day, not with old leauen, neither with the leauen of maliciousnes and wickednesse, but with the vnleauened bread of purenesse and trueth.
- 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God, I am that I am: And his grace which is in me, was not in vayne: But I laboured more aboundauntly then they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.
- 2 Cor 1:17 : 17 When I therfore was thus mynded, did I vse lightnesse? or mynde I carnally those thynges whiche I mynde, that with me shoulde be yea yea, & nay nay?
- Josh 24:14 : 14 Nowe therfore feare the Lorde, and serue him in perfectnesse and trueth, and put away the goddes whiche your fathers serued on the other side of ye fludde and in Egypt, and serue ye the Lorde.
- Job 13:15 : 15 Lo, though he slay me, yet wyl I trust in him: but I wyll reproue myne owne wayes in his sight.