The Limits of the Conscience

1 Corinthians 4:4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

1 John 3:19-20 And by this we know that we. . . persuade our hearts before him, because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weighs the motives.

Proverbs 16:25 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Proverbs 30:12  . . . pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.