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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 speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
¹³Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. (1 Cor. 2:4,13)

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1 Cor. 15:10• ¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. (1 Cor. 15:10)

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our rejoicing.

Job 13:15• ¹⁵Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. (Job 13:15)

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Job 23:10‑12• ¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
¹¹My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
¹²Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. (Job 23:10‑12)

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Job 27:5‑6• ⁵God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
⁶My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. (Job 27:5‑6)

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Job 31:1‑40• ¹I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
²For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
³Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
⁴Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
⁵If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
⁶Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
⁷If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
⁸Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
⁹If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
¹⁰Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
¹¹For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
¹²For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
¹³If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
¹⁴What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall 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 have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
¹⁷Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
¹⁸(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
¹⁹If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
²⁰If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
²¹If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
²²Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
²³For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
²⁴If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
²⁵If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
²⁶If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
²⁷And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
²⁸This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
²⁹If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
³⁰Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
³¹If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
³²The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
³³If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
³⁴Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
³⁵Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
³⁶Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
³⁷I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
³⁸If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
³⁹If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
⁴⁰Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. (Job 31:1‑40)

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Psa. 7:3‑5• ³O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
⁴If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
⁵Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honor 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 in thy covenant.
¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
¹⁹Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
²¹Shall 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, Remember now, O Lord, 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 sore. (Isa. 38:3)

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Acts 24:16• ¹⁶And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. (Acts 24:16)

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

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1 Cor. 4:4• ⁴For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. (1 Cor. 4:4)

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Gal. 6:4• ⁴But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. (Gal. 6:4)

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1 Tim. 1:5,19‑20• ⁵Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
¹⁹Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
²⁰Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. (1 Tim. 1:5,19‑20)

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Heb. 13:18• ¹⁸Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. (Heb. 13:18)

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1 Peter 3:16,21• ¹⁶Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
²¹The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: (1 Peter 3:16,21)

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1 John 3:19‑22• ¹⁹And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
²⁰For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
²¹Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
²²And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that 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 beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. (2 Cor. 11:3)

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Rom. 16:18‑19• ¹⁸For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
¹⁹For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. (Rom. 16:18‑19)

godly.

2 Cor. 2:17• ¹⁷For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. (2 Cor. 2:17)

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2 Cor. 8:8• ⁸I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. (2 Cor. 8:8)

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Josh. 24:14• ¹⁴Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord. (Josh. 24:14)

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1 Cor. 5:8• ⁸Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor. 5:8)

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

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Phil. 1:10• ¹⁰That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; (Phil. 1:10)

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Titus 2:7• ⁷In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, (Titus 2:7)

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2 Cor. 1:17• ¹⁷When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? (2 Cor. 1:17)

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2 Cor. 4:2• ²But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. (2 Cor. 4:2)

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2 Cor. 10:2‑4• ²But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
³For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
⁴(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) (2 Cor. 10:2‑4)

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2 Cor. 12:15‑19• ¹⁵And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
¹⁶But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
¹⁷Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
¹⁸I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
¹⁹Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. (2 Cor. 12:15‑19)

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1 Cor. 2:4‑5,13• ⁴And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
⁵That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
¹³Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. (1 Cor. 2:4‑5,13)

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1 Cor. 15:10• ¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet 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 a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
¹⁴But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
¹⁵This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
¹⁷But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
¹⁸And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. (James 3:13‑18)

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James 4:6• ⁶But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. (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.

JND Translation Notes

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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."