1 Timothy 1:5

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1 Timothy 1:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 As I urged you on my departure to Macedonia, you should stay on at Ephesus to instruct certain men not to teach false doctrines

4 or devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculation rather than the stewardship of God’s work, which is by faith.

5 The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

6 Some have strayed from these ways and turned aside to empty talk.

7 They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.

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Romans 13:10

Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Galatians 5:13

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

Galatians 5:14

The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Galatians 5:22

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Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:8

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:9

This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

1 John 4:10

And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 John 4:11

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:13

By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

1 John 4:14

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

Mark 12:28

Now one of the scribes had come up and heard their debate. Noticing how well Jesus had answered them, he asked Him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

Mark 12:29

Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

Mark 12:30

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Mark 12:31

The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

Mark 12:32

“Right, Teacher,” the scribe replied. “You have stated correctly that God is One and there is no other but Him,

Mark 12:33

and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Mark 12:34

When Jesus saw that the man had answered wisely, He said, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to question Him any further.

Romans 14:15

If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:2

The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But the one who loves God is known by God.

1 Corinthians 13:1

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:2

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:3

If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

1 Corinthians 13:5

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

1 Corinthians 13:6

Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

1 Corinthians 13:7

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:8

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.

1 Corinthians 13:9

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

1 Corinthians 13:10

but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

1 Corinthians 13:12

Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 14:1

Earnestly pursue love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

2 Peter 1:7

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Psalms 24:4

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

Psalms 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Jeremiah 4:14

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Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Matthew 12:35

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Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

James 4:8

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

1 Peter 1:22

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.

1 Timothy 1:19

holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.

1 Timothy 3:9

They must hold to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

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Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”

Acts 24:16

In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.

Romans 9:1

I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.

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I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as did my forefathers, as I constantly remember you night and day in my prayers.

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To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.

1 Peter 3:16

keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.

1 Peter 3:21

And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.

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