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| 1 | Strong's Number: g4893 | Greek: suneidesis |
Conscience:
lit., "a knowing with" (sun, "with," oida, "to know"), i.e., "a co-knowledge (with oneself), the witness borne to one's conduct by conscience, that faculty by which we apprehend the will of God, as that which is designed to govern our lives;" hence
(a) the sense of guiltiness before God; Hbr 10:2;
(b) that process of thought which distinguishes what it considers morally good or bad, commending the good, condemning the bad, and so prompting to do the former, and avoid the latter; Rom 2:15 (bearing witness with God's Law); Hbr 9:1; 2Cr 1:12; acting in a certain way because "conscience" requires it, Rom 13:5; so as not to cause scruples of "conscience" in another, 1Cr 10:28, 29; not calling a thing in question unnecessarily, as if conscience demanded it, 1Cr 10:25, 27; "commending oneself to every man's conscience," 2Cr 4:2; cp. 2Cr 5:11. There may be a "conscience" not strong enough to distinguish clearly between the lawful and the unlawful, 1Cr 8:7, 10, 12 (some regard consciousness as the meaning here). The phrase "conscience toward God," in 1Pe 2:19, signifies a "conscience" (or perhaps here, a consciousness) so controlled by the apprehension of God's presence, that the person realizes that griefs are to be borne in accordance with His will. Hbr 9:9 teaches that sacrifices under the Law could not so perfect a person that he could regard himself as free from guilt.
For various descriptions of "conscience" see Act 23:1; 24:16; 1Cr 8:7; 1Ti 1:5, 19; 3:9; 4:2; 2Ti 1:3; Tts 1:15; Hbr 9:14; 10:22; 13:18; 1Pe 3:16, 21.
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