God's anger is revealed from heaven against all the sin and evil of the people whose evil ways prevent the truth from being known.

God punishes them, because what can be known about God is plain to them, for God himself made it plain.

I am speaking the truth; I belong to Christ and I do not lie. My conscience, ruled by the Holy Spirit, also assures me that I am not lying

When they heard this, they all left, one by one, the older ones first. Jesus was left alone, with the woman still standing there.

Paul looked straight at the Council and said, "My fellow Israelites! My conscience is perfectly clear about the way in which I have lived before God to this very day."

And so I do my best always to have a clear conscience before God and people.

We are proud that our conscience assures us that our lives in this world, and especially our relations with you, have been ruled by God-given frankness and sincerity, by the power of God's grace and not by human wisdom.

We know what it means to fear the Lord, and so we try to persuade others. God knows us completely, and I hope that in your hearts you know me as well.

Such teachings are spread by deceitful liars, whose consciences are dead, as if burnt with a hot iron.

Everything is pure to those who are themselves pure; but nothing is pure to those who are defiled and unbelieving, for their minds and consciences have been defiled.

That evening they heard the LORD God walking in the garden, and they hid from him among the trees.

He answered, "I heard you in the garden; I was afraid and hid from you, because I was naked."

Abraham himself said that she was his sister, and she said the same thing. I did this with a clear conscience, and I have done no wrong."

and said to one another, "Yes, now we are suffering the consequences of what we did to our brother; we saw the great trouble he was in when he begged for help, but we would not listen. That is why we are in this trouble now."

Reuben said, "I told you not to harm the boy, but you wouldn't listen. And now we are being paid back for his death."

You know very well all the wrong that you did to my father David. The LORD will punish you for it.

I will never give up my claim to be right; my conscience is clear.

and you know yourself that you have insulted other people many times.

This, then, is how we will know that we belong to the truth; this is how we will be confident in God's presence.

And so, my dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have courage in God's presence.