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For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, notb with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace ofd God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

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1 Cor. 2:4,13• ⁴and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;
¹³which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means. (1 Cor. 2:4,13)

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1 Cor. 15:10• ¹⁰But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not *I*, but the grace of God which was with me. (1 Cor. 15:10)

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our rejoicing.

Job 13:15• ¹⁵Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him. (Job 13:15)

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Job 23:10‑12• ¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.
¹¹My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
¹²Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart. (Job 23:10‑12)

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Job 27:5‑6• ⁵Be it far from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove my blamelessness from me.
⁶My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth me not one of my days. (Job 27:5‑6)

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Job 31:1‑40• ¹I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
²For what would have been my portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
³Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?
⁴Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
⁵If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,
⁶(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)
⁷If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
⁸Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.
⁹If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,
¹⁰Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
¹¹For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity to be judged by the judges:
¹²For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
¹³If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,
¹⁴What then should I do when *God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?
¹⁵Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?
¹⁶If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
¹⁷Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,
¹⁸(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother's womb;)
¹⁹If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;
²⁰If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
²¹If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:
²²Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!
²³For calamity from *God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.
²⁴If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!
²⁵If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
²⁶If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
²⁷And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:
²⁸This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the *God who is above.
²⁹If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;
³⁰(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
³¹If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?--
³²The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.
³³If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
³⁴Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, …
³⁵Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!
³⁶Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me as a crown;
³⁷I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.
³⁸If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;
³⁹If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:
⁴⁰Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. (Job 31:1‑40)

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Psa. 7:3‑5• ³Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands;
⁴If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (indeed I have freed him that without cause oppressed me;)
⁵Let the enemy pursue after my soul, and take it, and let him tread down my life to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah. (Psa. 7:3‑5)

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Psa. 44:17‑21• ¹⁷All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant:
¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path;
¹⁹Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange *god,
²¹Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. (Psa. 44:17‑21)

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Isa. 38:3• ³and said, Ah, Jehovah, remember, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept much. (Isa. 38:3)

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Acts 24:16• ¹⁶For this cause I also exercise myself to have in everything a conscience without offence towards God and men. (Acts 24:16)

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Rom. 9:1• ¹I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, (Rom. 9:1)

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1 Cor. 4:4• ⁴For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not justified by this: but he that examines me is the Lord. (1 Cor. 4:4)

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Gal. 6:4• ⁴but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs to another. (Gal. 6:4)

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1 Tim. 1:5,19‑20• ⁵But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;
¹⁹maintaining faith and a good conscience; which last some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;
²⁰of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme. (1 Tim. 1:5,19‑20)

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Heb. 13:18• ¹⁸Pray for us: for we persuade ourselves that we have a good conscience, in all things desirous to walk rightly. (Heb. 13:18)

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1 Peter 3:16,21• 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.
²¹which figure also now saves you, even baptism, not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the demand as before God of a good conscience, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, (1 Peter 3:16,21)

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1 John 3:19‑22• ¹⁹And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him--
²⁰that if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
²¹Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness towards God,
²²and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight. (1 John 3:19‑22)

simplicity.

2 Cor. 11:3• ³But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, so your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ. (2 Cor. 11:3)

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Rom. 16:18‑19• ¹⁸For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
¹⁹For your obedience has reached to all. I rejoice therefore as it regards you; but I wish you to be wise as to that which is good, and simple as to evil. (Rom. 16:18‑19)

godly.

2 Cor. 2:17• ¹⁷For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ. (2 Cor. 2:17)

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2 Cor. 8:8• ⁸I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love. (2 Cor. 8:8)

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Josh. 24:14• ¹⁴And now fear Jehovah and serve him in perfectness and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river, and in Egypt; and serve Jehovah. (Josh. 24:14)

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1 Cor. 5:8• ⁸so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor. 5:8)

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Eph. 6:14• ¹⁴Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, (Eph. 6:14)

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Phil. 1:10• ¹⁰that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day, (Phil. 1:10)

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Titus 2:7• ⁷in all things affording thyself as a pattern of good works; in teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, (Titus 2:7)

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2 Cor. 1:17• ¹⁷Having therefore this purpose, did I then use lightness? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to flesh, that there should be with me yea yea, and nay nay? (2 Cor. 1:17)

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2 Cor. 4:2• ²But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God. (2 Cor. 4:2)

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2 Cor. 10:2‑4• ²but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh.
³For walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.
⁴For the arms of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful according to God to the overthrow of strongholds; (2 Cor. 10:2‑4)

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2 Cor. 12:15‑19• ¹⁵Now *I* shall most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls, if even in abundantly loving you I should be less loved.
¹⁶But be it so. *I* did not burden you, but being crafty I took you by guile.
¹⁷Did I make gain of you by any of those whom I have sent to you?
¹⁸I begged Titus, and sent the brother with him: did Titus at all make gain of you? have we not walked in the same spirit? have we not in the same steps?
¹⁹Ye have long been supposing that we excuse ourselves to you: we speak before God in Christ; and all things, beloved, for your building up. (2 Cor. 12:15‑19)

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1 Cor. 2:4‑5,13• ⁴and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;
⁵that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power.
¹³which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means. (1 Cor. 2:4‑5,13)

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1 Cor. 15:10• ¹⁰But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not *I*, but the grace of God which was with me. (1 Cor. 15:10)

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James 3:13‑18• ¹³Who is wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;
¹⁴but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.
¹⁶For where emulation and strife are, there is disorder and every evil thing.
¹⁷But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned.
¹⁸But the fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace. (James 3:13‑18)

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James 4:6• ⁶But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly. (James 4:6)

we have.That is, "We have conducted ourselves;" for [anastrepho ] in Greek, and {conversatio} in Latin, are used to denote the whole of a man's conduct, the tenor and practice of his life.

• He did not seek to conciliate men to and for himself, but as bent on pleasing God, he did not doubt that a conscience cleared in them would acknowledge a conscience void of offense in himself. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 1:8-14” by W. Kelly)

• His whole life was that of “simplicity.” This is an old English word that means single-minded. (“A True Christian Minister Is Consistent in All His Dealings in Life: 2 Corinthians 1:12-24” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before Godd, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God’s grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.

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Lit. "simplicity and sincerity of God." The force I take to be, "such as God would have, and God would produce." As we say, "That is the stroke of a master," "the act of a prince." "Godly" seems to me feeble, but not wrong. One cannot say "of God" here.

W. Kelly Translation

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For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience that in holinessa f and sincerity before God, not in carnal wisdom but in God’s grace, we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly towards you.

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T. R. with the mass reads "simplicity." The oldest MSS. read "holiness."