1 Timothy 1:5

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But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

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  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
  • 2 Tim 1:5 : 5 I recall your sincere faith that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure is in you.
  • 1 Pet 3:16 : 16 Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.
  • 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you– not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God– through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
  • 1 Tim 1:19 : 19 To do this you must hold firmly to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck in regard to the faith.
  • 1 Tim 3:9 : 9 holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.
  • 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 Thanksgiving and Charge to Timothy I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.
  • Gal 5:13-14 : 13 Practice Love For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely,“You must love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  • Rom 13:8-9 : 8 Exhortation to Love Neighbors Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments,“Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,”(and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this,“Love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
  • Ps 51:10 : 10 Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 “Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?
  • Matt 5:8 : 8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
  • Matt 12:35 : 35 The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.
  • Mark 12:28-34 : 28 The Greatest Commandment Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him,“Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered,“The most important is:‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is:‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” 32 The expert in the law said to him,“That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him. 33 And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 34 When Jesus saw that he had answered thoughtfully, he said to him,“You are not far from the kingdom of God.” Then no one dared any longer to question him.
  • Acts 15:9 : 9 and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.
  • Acts 23:1 : 1 Paul looked directly at the council and said,“Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God to this day.”
  • Acts 24:16 : 16 This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.
  • Rom 9:1 : 1 Israel’s Rejection Considered I am telling the truth in Christ(I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit–
  • Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.
  • 1 Cor 8:1-3 : 1 Food Sacrificed to Idols With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that“we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know. 3 But if someone loves God, he is known by God.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-14:1 : 1 The Way of Love If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit. 4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. 6 It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Prophecy and Tongues Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight– the only thing that matters is faith working through love.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.
  • 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).
  • Ps 24:4 : 4 The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.
  • 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God. 8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.
  • Heb 10:22 : 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
  • Heb 11:5-6 : 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God. 6 Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
  • Heb 13:18 : 18 Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to conduct ourselves rightly in every respect.
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.

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