1 Timothy 1:5

New Century Version

The purpose of this command is for people to have love, a love that comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a true faith.

Cross References

Psalm 24:4

Only those with clean hands and pure hearts, who have not worshiped idols, who have not made promises in the name of a false god.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a pure heart, God, and make my spirit right again.

Jeremiah 4:14

People of Jerusalem, clean the evil from your hearts so that you can be saved. Don’t continue making evil plans.

Zephaniah 3:7

I said, ‘Surely now Jerusalem will respect me and will accept my teaching.’ Then the place where they lived would not be destroyed, and I would not have to punish them. But they were still eager to do evil in everything they did.

Matthew 12:35

Good people have good things in their hearts, and so they say good things. But evil people have evil in their hearts, so they say evil things.

Matthew 5:8

They are blessed whose thoughts are pure, for they will see God.

Acts 15:9

To God, those people are not different from us. When they believed, he made their hearts pure.

Acts 23:1

Paul looked at the council and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life without guilt feelings before God up to this day.”

Acts 24:16

This is why I always try to do what I believe is right before God and people.

Romans 10:4

Christ ended the law so that everyone who believes in him may be right with God.

Romans 12:9

Your love must be real. Hate what is evil, and hold on to what is good.

Romans 14:15

If you hurt your brother’s or sister’s faith because of something you eat, you are not really following the way of love. Do not destroy someone’s faith by eating food he thinks is wrong, because Christ died for him.

Romans 9:1

I am in Christ, and I am telling you the truth; I do not lie. My conscience is ruled by the Holy Spirit, and it tells me I am not lying.

1 Corinthians 13:1

I may speak in different languages of people or even angels. But if I do not have love, I am only a noisy bell or a crashing cymbal.

2 Corinthians 1:12

This is what we are proud of, and I can say it with a clear conscience: In everything we have done in the world, and especially with you, we have had an honest and sincere heart from God. We did this by God’s grace, not by the kind of wisdom the world has.

Galatians 5:22

But the Spirit produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 5:6

When we are in Christ Jesus, it is not important if we are circumcised or not. The important thing is faith—the kind of faith that works through love.

Deuteronomy 10:12

Now, Israel, this is what the Lord your God wants you to do: Respect the Lord your God, and do what he has told you to do. Love him. Serve the Lord your God with your whole being,

1 Timothy 1:18

Timothy, my child, I am giving you a command that agrees with the prophecies that were given about you in the past. I tell you this so you can follow them and fight the good fight.

1 Timothy 1:19

Continue to have faith and do what you know is right. Some people have rejected this, and their faith has been shipwrecked.

1 Timothy 3:9

With a clear conscience they must follow the secret of the faith that God made known to us.

2 Timothy 1:3

I thank God as I always mention you in my prayers, day and night. I serve him, doing what I know is right as my ancestors did.

2 Timothy 1:5

I remember your true faith. That faith first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I know you now have that same faith.

2 Timothy 2:22

But run away from the evil desires of youth. Try hard to live right and to have faith, love, and peace, together with those who trust in the Lord from pure hearts.

Titus 1:15

To those who are pure, all things are pure, but to those who are full of sin and do not believe, nothing is pure. Both their minds and their consciences have been ruined.

Hebrews 10:22

let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, because we have been made free from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us. We are sure that we have a clear conscience, because we always want to do the right thing.

Hebrews 9:14

How much more is done by the blood of Christ. He offered himself through the eternal Spirit as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make our consciences pure from useless acts so we may serve the living God.

James 4:8

Come near to God, and God will come near to you. You sinners, clean sin out of your lives. You who are trying to follow God and the world at the same time, make your thinking pure.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that your obedience to the truth has purified your souls, you can have true love for your Christian brothers and sisters. So love each other deeply with all your heart.

1 Peter 3:16

but answer in a gentle way and with respect. Keep a clear conscience so that those who speak evil of your good life in Christ will be made ashamed.

1 Peter 3:21

And that water is like baptism that now saves you—not the washing of dirt from the body, but the promise made to God from a good conscience. And this is because Jesus Christ was raised from the dead.

1 Peter 4:8

Most importantly, love each other deeply, because love will cause people to forgive each other for many sins.

2 Peter 1:7

and to your service for God, add kindness for your brothers and sisters in Christ; and to this kindness, add love.

1 John 3:10

So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are: Those who do not do what is right are not God’s children, and those who do not love their brothers and sisters are not God’s children.

1 John 3:23

This is what God commands: that we believe in his Son, Jesus Christ, and that we love each other, just as he commanded.

1 John 3:3

Christ is pure, and all who have this hope in Christ keep themselves pure like Christ.