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2 Corinthians 1:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony  of our conscience  is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially towards you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom  but by God’s grace.

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We also speak these things, not in words  taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.


For we do not market the word of God  for profit like so many.  On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.


You are witnesses,  and so is God, of how devoutly, righteously,  and blamelessly  we conducted ourselves with you believers.


Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not as the removal of dirt from the body,  but the pledge  of a good conscience towards God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,


Pray for us, for we are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honourably in everything.


I am not saying this as a command. Rather, by means of the diligence of others, I am testing the genuineness of your love.


Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting  deceitfully or distorting the word of God,  but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth.


But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.


I always strive to have a clear conscience  towards God and men.


Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, ‘Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience  to this day.’


Even if he kills me, I will hope in him. I will still defend  my ways before him.


Yet do this with gentleness and reverence, keeping a clear conscience,  so that when you are accused,  those who disparage your good conduct in Christ will be put to shame.


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


so that you may approve the things that are superior  and may be pure  and blameless  in the day of Christ,


Stand,  therefore, with truth  like a belt round your waist, righteousness  like armour on your chest,


Let each person examine his own work,  and then he can take pride in himself alone, and not compare himself with someone else.


But I fear that, as the serpent  deceived  Eve  by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a sincere and pure  devotion to Christ.


Now when I planned this, was I of two minds? Or what I plan, do I plan in a purely human  , way, so that I say ‘Yes, yes’ and ‘No, no’ at the same time?


Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old leaven or with the leaven of malice and evil,  but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.


For I am not conscious of anything against myself, but I am not justified  by this. It is the Lord who judges me.


I speak the truth in Christ   #– #I am not lying; my conscience testifies to me through the Holy Spirit   #– #


He said, ‘Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and wholeheartedly,  and have done what pleases you.’  And Hezekiah wept bitterly.


‘Therefore, fear the Lord and worship him in sincerity and truth.  Get rid of the gods your ancestors worshipped  beyond the River Euphrates and in Egypt, and worship the Lord.


But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says: God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.   ,


in everything. Make yourself an example of good works with integrity and dignity  in your teaching.


For Christ did not send me to baptise, but to preach the gospel #– #not with eloquent wisdom, so that the cross  of Christ will not be emptied of its effect.


to one  is given a message of wisdom  through the Spirit; to another, a message of knowledge by the same Spirit;


For I have kept the ways of the  Lord and have not turned from my God to wickedness.





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