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Conscience
Conscience is a biblical term for the inner awareness by which a person reflects on and knows the rightness or wrongness of his or her own conduct. It appears chiefly in the Pauline Epistles of the New Testament.
Articles 17, showing 6
- Civil DisobedienceDoctrine & Theology
Civil disobedience is the act of openly and nonviolently breaking a law or state order that one judges in conscience to be unjust, while accepting the resulting punishment. In Christianity it is treated as a question of what to do when obedience to the state conflicts with obedience to God.
- Natural TheologyDoctrine & Theology
Natural theology is the branch of theology concerned with what can be known about God through the order of the natural world and through human reason and conscience, without relying on special revelation such as Scripture.
- General RevelationDoctrine & Theology
General revelation is the concept that God reveals himself through channels open to all people, such as nature, history, and the human conscience. It is paired with special revelation, which comes through Scripture and Jesus Christ.
- Special RevelationDoctrine & Theology
Special revelation is a theological term for God's disclosure of Himself and His saving will through particular means such as prophecy, historical events, Jesus Christ, and Scripture, as distinguished from general revelation through nature and conscience.
- Food Offered to IdolsBible
Food offered to idols is a biblical term for food, especially meat, that had been sacrificed to pagan gods. Through the warnings of the Old Testament and the New Testament discussion in 1 Corinthians 8–10, it is treated as a matter of the believer's conscience and fellowship.
Verses in the King James Version 30, showing 6
- John 8:9
And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
- Acts 23:1
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
- Acts 24:16
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
- Romans 2:15
Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
- Romans 9:1
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
- Romans 13:5
Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
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