Jeremiah 37:14

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;” he would be the prophet of this people.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.

If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.

in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

but Baruch the son of Neriah has turned you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.”

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.

When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.