Lifting up the eyes and enlarging the heart, the light of the unjust is sin.
Titus 1:15 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To the pure [in heart and conscience] all things are pure, but to the defiled and corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are defiled and polluted. American Standard Version (1901) To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. Common English Bible Everything is clean to those who are clean, but nothing is clean to those who are corrupt and without faith. Instead, their mind and conscience are corrupted. Catholic Public Domain Version All things are clean to those who are clean. But to those who are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean; for both their mind and their conscience have been polluted. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. |
Lifting up the eyes and enlarging the heart, the light of the unjust is sin.
And Haggai will say, If the unclean of soul shall touch upon any of these, shall it be unclean? and the priests shall answer and say, It shall be unclean.
But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man.
And a voice again of a second time to him, What things God cleansed, do not thou make common.
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing common by itself; except to any one reckoning to be common, to that one it is common.
Not for sake of food destroy thou the work of God. Truly all things clean; but evil to the man eating by offence.
And he being judged if he eat, has been condemned for not of faith; and everything not of faith is sin.
All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all things are lawful to me, but all build not the house.
Every thing being sold in the market, eat, ye, interrogating nothing through consciousness:
Whether therefore ye eat, whether ye drink, or what ye do, do ye all things to the glory of God.
But not in all, knowledge: and some with consciousness of the idol even till now eat as a sacrifice to idols: and their consciousness being weak is contaminated.
Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.
Let us approach with a true heart in complete certainty of faith, having our hearts besprinkled from an evil consciousness, and having our bodies washed with pure water.
Observing narrowly lest any be failing of the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing forth aloft give trouble, and by this many be defiled;
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself blameless to God, purify your consciousness from dead works to serve the living God?