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2 Corinthians 1:12

James Moffatt - New Testament

My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

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And this is what we discuss, using language taught by no human wisdom but by the Spirit. We interpret what is spiritual in spiritual language.

I am, for I am not like most, adulterating the word of God; like a man of sincerity, like a man of God, I speak the word in Christ before the very presence of God.

You are witnesses, and so is God, to our behaviour among you believers, how pious and upright and blameless it was,

Baptism, the counterpart of that, saves you to-day (not the mere washing of dirt from the flesh but the prayer for a clean conscience before God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ

Pray for me, for I am sure I have a clean conscience; my desire is in every way to lead an honest life.

I am not issuing any orders, only using the zeal of others to prove how sterling your own love is.

I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them — though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

Hence I too endeavour to have a clear conscience before God and men all the time.

With a steady look at the Sanhedrin Paul said, "Brothers, I have lived with a perfectly good conscience before God down to the present day."

see that you have a clean conscience, so that, for all their slander of you, these libellers of your good Christian behaviour may be ashamed.

Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.

so that you may be transparent and no harm to anyone in view of the day of Christ,

Hold your ground, tighten the belt of truth about your loins, wear integrity as your coat of mail,

let everyone bring his own work to the test — then he will have something to boast about on his own account, and not in comparison with his fellows.

but I am afraid of your thoughts getting seduced from a single devotion to Christ, just as the serpent beguiled Eve with his cunning.

Such was my intention. Now, have I shown myself 'fickle'? When I propose some plan, do I propose it in a worldly way, ready to mean 'no' as well as 'yes'?

So let us celebrate our festival, not with any old leaven, not with vice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of innocence and integrity.

for, although I am not conscious of having anything against me, that does not clear me. It is the Lord who cross-questions me on the matter.

I am telling the truth in Christ — it is no lie, my conscience bears me out in the holy Spirit

Yet he gives grace more and more: thus it is said, The haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

set them an example of good conduct; be sincere and serious in your teaching,

Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

One man is granted words of wisdom by the Spirit, another words of knowledge by the same Spirit;




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