syneidēsis · conscience

What it means

syneidēsis (συνείδησις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “conscience”.

The inner sense that judges whether what one does is right or wrong.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The inner voice that tells you if something is right or wrong.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• conscience ×28
• consciences ×1
• consciousness ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Acts×2
• Romans×3
• 1 Corinthians×8
• 2 Corinthians×3
• 1 Timothy×4
• 2 Timothy×1
• Titus×1
• Hebrews×5
• 1 Peter×3

• Acts 23:1

  And Paul, looking intently at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived my life in all good conscience before God up to this day.”

• Acts 24:16

  In this I also strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and people always.

• Romans 2:15

  They show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness with it, and their thoughts accusing or even defending them between one another,

• Romans 9:1

  I am telling the truth in the Messiah; I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

• Romans 13:5

  Therefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of the wrath but also because of conscience.

• 1 Corinthians 8:7

  But not in everyone is this knowledge; but some, through being accustomed until now to the idol, eat the food as sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

• 1 Corinthians 8:10

  For if anyone sees you, the one who has knowledge, reclining at table in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, since he is weak, be built up to eat food sacrificed to idols?

• 1 Corinthians 8:12

  And so, sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against the Messiah.

• 1 Corinthians 10:25

  Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, asking no questions because of conscience,

• 1 Corinthians 10:27

  If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, asking no questions because of conscience.

• 1 Corinthians 10:28

  But if someone says to you, This has been offered in sacrifice, do not eat it, because of that one who told you, and because of conscience;

• 1 Corinthians 10:29

  conscience, I mean, not your own but that of the other. For why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience?

• 2 Corinthians 1:12

  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 have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

• 2 Corinthians 4:2

  But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in cunning nor falsifying the word of God, but by the open display of the truth commending ourselves to every person’s conscience before God.

• 2 Corinthians 5:11

  Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade people, but to God we have been made manifest; and I hope that we have been made manifest also in your consciences.

• 1 Timothy 1:5

  But the goal of the instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith.

• 1 Timothy 1:19

  holding faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith.

• 1 Timothy 3:9

  holding the mystery of the faith with a clean conscience.

• 1 Timothy 4:2

  through the hypocrisy of liars whose own conscience has been seared,

• 2 Timothy 1:3

  I give thanks to God, whom I worship, as my ancestors did, with a clean conscience, as I have unceasing remembrance of you in my supplications night and day,

• Titus 1:15

  All things are clean to the clean; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean; rather, both their mind and conscience have been defiled.

• Hebrews 9:9

  This is a symbol for the present time, according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot make the worshiper perfect with respect to conscience,

• Hebrews 9:14

  how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

• Hebrews 10:2

  Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, once purified, would have no consciousness of sins any longer?

• Hebrews 10:22

  let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our body washed with pure water.

• Hebrews 13:18

  Pray for us, for we are convinced that we have a good conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves well in all things.

• 1 Peter 2:19

  For this is grace, if because of conscience toward God someone endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.

• 1 Peter 3:16

  but with gentleness and fear, having a good conscience, so that in what you are spoken against, those who abuse your good conduct in the Messiah may be put to shame.

• 1 Peter 3:21

  which also now saves you, as a corresponding figure: immersion, not the removal of dirt from the flesh but the request of a good conscience to God, through the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah,

And 1 more times.