Acts 24:16

The Passion Translation

That’s why I seek with all my heart to have a clean conscience toward God and toward others.

Cross References

Acts 23:1

Paul fixed his eyes on the members of the council and said, “My brothers, up to this day I have lived my life before God with a perfectly clear conscience.”

Romans 2:15

It demonstrates that the requirements of the law are woven into their hearts. They know what is right and wrong, for their conscience validates this “law” in their heart. Their thoughts correct them in one instance and commend them in another.

Romans 9:1

O Israel, my Jewish family, I feel such great sorrow and heartache for you that never leaves me! God knows these deep feelings within me as I long for you to come to faith in the Anointed One. My conscience will not let me speak anything but the truth.

1 Corinthians 10:32

And make sure you’re not offending Jews or Greeks or any part of God’s assembly over your personal preferences.

1 Corinthians 4:4

even though my conscience is clear. But that doesn’t mean I stand acquitted before the Lord, for the only judge I care about is him!

2 Corinthians 1:12

We rejoice in saying with complete honesty and a clear conscience that God has empowered us to conduct ourselves in a holy manner and with no hidden agenda. God’s marvelous grace enables us to minister to everyone with pure motives, not in the clever wisdom of the world. This is especially true in all of our dealings with you.

2 Corinthians 4:2

We reject every shameful cover-up and refuse to resort to cunning trickery or distorting the Word of God. Instead, we open up our souls to you by presenting the truth to everyone’s conscience in the sight and presence of God.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

With God as our witness you saw how we lived among you—in holiness, in godly relationships, and without fault.

1 Timothy 1:5

For we reach the goal of fulfilling all the commandments when we love others deeply with a pure heart, a clean conscience, and sincere faith.

1 Timothy 3:9

Instead, they must faithfully embrace the mysteries of faith while keeping a clean conscience.

2 Timothy 1:3

You know that I’ve been called to serve the God of my fathers with a clean conscience. Night and day I pray constantly for you, building a memorial for you with my prayers.

Titus 1:15

It’s true that all is pure to those who have pure hearts, but to the corrupt unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are defiled.

Hebrews 10:22

we come closer to God and approach him with an open heart, fully convinced that nothing will keep us at a distance from him. For our hearts have been sprinkled with blood to remove impurity, and we have been freed from an accusing conscience. Now we are clean, unstained, and presentable to God inside and out!

Hebrews 13:18

And keep praying for us that we continue to live with a clear conscience, for we desire to live honorably in all that we do.

Hebrews 9:14

Yet how much more will the sacred blood of the Messiah thoroughly cleanse our consciences! For by the power of the eternal Spirit he has offered himself to God as the perfect Sacrifice that now frees us from our dead works to worship and serve the living God.

1 Peter 2:19

You find God’s favor by deciding to please God even when you endure hardships because of unjust suffering.

1 Peter 3:16

with gentleness and respect. Maintain a clean conscience, so that those who slander you for living a pure life in Christ will have to lie about you and will be ashamed because of their slander.

1 Peter 3:21

This was a prophetic picture of the immersion that now saves you—not a bathing of the physical body but rather the response of a good conscience before God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,