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Holdingf faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

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1 Tim. 3:9• ⁹holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. (1 Tim. 3:9)

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Holding.

1 Tim. 1:5• ⁵But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith; (1 Tim. 1:5)

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1 Tim. 3:9• ⁹holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. (1 Tim. 3:9)

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Titus 1:9• ⁹clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers. (Titus 1:9)

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Heb. 3:14• ¹⁴For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end; (Heb. 3:14)

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1 Peter 3:15‑16• ¹⁵but sanctify the Lord the Christ in your hearts, and be always prepared to give an answer to every one that asks you to give an account of the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear;
¹⁶having a good conscience, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ. (1 Peter 3:15‑16)

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Rev. 3:3,8,10• ³Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and keep it and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I shall come upon thee.
⁸I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an opened door, which no one can shut, because thou hast a little power, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
¹⁰Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, *I* also will keep thee out of the hour of trial, which is about to come upon the whole habitable world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. (Rev. 3:3,8,10)

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Phil. 3:18‑19• ¹⁸(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
¹⁹whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and their glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:) (Phil. 3:18‑19)

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2 Tim. 3:1‑6• ¹But this know, that in the last days difficult times shall be there;
²for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,
³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,
⁴traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
⁵having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.
⁶For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts, (2 Tim. 3:1‑6)

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2 Peter 2:1‑3,12‑22• ¹But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;
²and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.
³And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.
¹²But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption,
¹³receiving the reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you;
¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁵having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;
¹⁶but had reproof of his own wickedness--the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the folly of the prophet.
¹⁷These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved for ever.
¹⁸For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,
¹⁹promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.
²⁰For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.
²¹For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
²²But that word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog has turned back to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to her rolling in mud. (2 Peter 2:1‑3,12‑22)

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Jude 10‑13• ¹⁰But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves.
¹¹Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
¹²These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together with you without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by the winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;
¹³raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity. (Jude 10‑13)

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1 Tim. 4:1‑2• ¹But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons
²speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience, (1 Tim. 4:1‑2)

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1 Cor. 11:19• ¹⁹For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you. (1 Cor. 11:19)

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Gal. 1:6‑8• ⁶I wonder that ye thus quickly change, from him that called you in Christ's grace, to a different gospel,
⁷which is not another one; but there are some that trouble you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ.
⁸But if even *we* or an angel out of heaven announce as glad tidings to you anything besides what we have announced as glad tidings to you, let him be accursed. (Gal. 1:6‑8)

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Gal. 5:4• ⁴Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated from him, as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace. (Gal. 5:4)

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2 Tim. 4:4• ⁴and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables. (2 Tim. 4:4)

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Heb. 6:4‑6• ⁴For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
⁵and have tasted the good word of God, and the works of power of the age to come,
⁶and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him. (Heb. 6:4‑6)

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1 John 2:19• ¹⁹They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us. (1 John 2:19)

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1 Tim. 6:9• ⁹But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and ruin. (1 Tim. 6:9)

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Matt. 6:27• ²⁷But which of you by carefulness can add to his growth one cubit? (Matt. 6:27)

• "Faith" as an inward state is different from "the faith" or truth believed. (“On 1 Timothy 1:18-20” by W. Kelly)

• For if faith bring God in, a good conscience judges self and keeps sin out. (“On 1 Timothy 1:18-20” by W. Kelly)

• The loss of a good conscience opens the door to Satan, because it deprives us of communion with God; and the active mind, under Satan’s influence, invents ideas instead of confessing the truth of God. (“1 Timothy 1” by J.N. Darby)

• Faith in this passage is, as one has said, "The doctrine of Christianity... that which God had revealed, received with certainty as such—as the truth" (J.N.D.). (“The Charge and Its End: 1 Timothy 1” by H. Smith)

• {good conscience} How often the heresies into which believers fall have their secret root in some indulged and unjudged sin which defiles the conscience, robs the soul of communion with God and leaves it a prey to the influences of Satan. (“The Charge and Its End: 1 Timothy 1” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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maintaininge faithf and a good conscience; which last some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;

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Or "holding fast," as 2 Tim. 1.13.

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The word "faith" embraces two ideas. doctrine, as taught of God and received; and subjectively the state of soul. If I have cast off the faith, the doctrine and the state of soul are both gone. Here "faith" (first time) is the inward energy of grace which holds fast the truth. The two are not separated, but the state of the soul is first in the apostle's mind. In the second, they, having put away a good conscience, did not hold fast the faith, but lost it in some way thus objectively. In this second case, there is the article in Greek, which does not exclude faith in the soul, but leads the mind to the faith. In English "the faith" would be too absolute or merely doctrinal.

W. Kelly Translation

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