What Is a Good Conscience?

Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. - Hebrews 13:18

    “Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.” Hebrews 13:18

    In Bible terms, a good conscience is a conscience purified from the guilt of sin by the grace of God and purged from reliance upon dead works by the blood of Christ. It is a conscience purged and purified by the blood of Christ (Heb. 9:9-14; 10:22). A pure conscience may still be a weak conscience, not always free from the taboos of religion and society (1 Cor. 8:7-12). But a good conscience is a conscience freed from both the guilt of sin and the dead works of legal religion, relying upon Christ alone for all things. The good conscience sees and understands that “Christ is All!”

    A good conscience is a conscience that seeks to be void of offence (Acts 24:16). A good conscience is pure, honest, and sincere. — "Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned" (1 Tim. 1:5).

    Faith unfeigned is true faith, not the pretended faith of the hypocrite. A man with a pure conscience really believes what he says he believes. It is holding the mystery of the faith in a good conscience

    A good conscience is a believer’s source of peace and joy (2 Cor. 1:2; 4:1-2). It is a conscience that is submissive to the will of God (1 Pet. 2:19) and obedient to Christ (1 Pet. 3:21). A good conscience causes people to live right (1 Pet. 3:16).

    Do you have a good conscience? May God be pleased to give you a good conscience by the sprinkling of the blood of Christ.