Assertion: conscience | /r/HasProperty | seared
Facets:
value: as with a hot iron
type: MANNER
value: alarmingly
type: DEGREE
value: in time
type: TEMPORAL
value: in other words
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: We have an important warning in 1 Timothy 4:2 that the conscience can be "seared.
text: Paul also spoke of consciences that were seared.
text: When the conscience is seared — burned out by constantly going against its nudgings — then men become like animals in their behavior.
text: The conscience can be seared and eroded, being desensitized by repeated sin.
text: In other words, if we suppress the conviction of the Spirit of God and resist Him and keep on sinning, after a time, the conscience is so seared or burnt that we cannot hear the Spirit speak to our conscience anymore.
text: In time, the conscience will be so seared that we cannot even hear the Spirit anymore, and that will surely bring disaster.
text: If we keep on sinning once we’ve been saved, then our conscience can also be seared, as with a hot iron, and the Spirit can no longer tell us when we are sinning.
text: Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared…
text: Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
text: Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
text: Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
text: They feel no guilt because their conscience is seared.
text: A man's conscience can be seared and branded with sin and wrong so that it does not convict him or judge him as it should.
text: First Timothy 4:1-2 says, "Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared.
text: You have a culture where the conscience is defiled, where the conscience is seared; like leprosy, the nerves are dead, they can’t feel anything.
text: When you can neglect to ventilate your room, see that you have not too little or too much fire--in short, when you can in any way trifle with your health, that precious gift of God, without conviction of guilt, your conscience is alarmingly seared.
text: When you can trifle with your time; spend it in reading plays, and novels, mere slang in newspapers, or in any other way, squander an hour or a moment of your precious time, without compunction, your conscience is already seared.
text: When you can hinder others and trifle with their precious time, without remorse, your conscience is seared.
text: If you can be guilty of it without remorse, your conscience is seared as with a hot iron.
text: And if you do not feel condemned for this, it is because your conscience is seared.
text: If you can stand and talk with and hinder a man while at work, or in any way cause him to spend a moment's time in vain, without remorse, it is an evidence that your conscience is seared.
text: When you can squander your possessions in any way, and consume them upon your lusts, without remorse, your conscience is seared as with a hot iron.
text: When you can suffer difficulties between yourselves and others to remain unsettled, without using every Christian means to adjust them, it proves that your conscience is seared as with a hot iron.
text: when it does but little good to reason with you--when light, truth, argument, seem to pass over your mind, without lodging in it--when you are not convicted and converted, by a reasonable degree of evidence--when you do not feel yourself shut up to the necessity of yielding to a preponderance of evidence, or falling under deep condemnation, it is because your conscience is seared.
text: When you have no sense of moral obligation in respect to those habits of life, that have an influence upon your brethren, your family, the community in which you dwell, and upon the world at large, it is because your conscience is seared.
text: If you have no conscience in respect to observing these things, for your family's sake; and if you do not require them and all under your control to have system, principle and conscience upon these subjects, from which they will no more depart without imperative necessity than they would go without their necessary food, it is because your conscience is seared.
text: Whenever you can, through any neglect or carelessness, break any thing, injure the tools, furniture, or any thing else with which you are entrusted, whether it belongs to yourself or any one else, without compunction, your conscience is seared.
text: When you can neglect to support the institutions of the gospel, to the extent of your ability, to pay your minister's salary, to aid in the support of the expenses of the church--when you can see the house of God lie waste, the doors and windows out of repair, the house in a filthy state, the stoves out of order, and things at loose ends--when you can suffer these things to be, without deep compunction of conscience, your conscience is seared with a hot iron; and when a church is in a state to suffer such things, without deep remorse and self-condemnation, the conscience of the church is seared.
text: But to notice again personal habits, if you have no system, no conscience, no principles in respect to the hours of eating and drinking, but allow yourselves to consult convenience rather than physiological law, taking your meals at one time many hours apart, and at other times within three or four hours of each other, thus recklessly violating the laws of God established in your own constitution, your conscience is seared.
text: When you can speak evil of a neighbor, when you can publish his real or supposed faults without necessity, and do this without remorse, your conscience is seared.
text: When you can feel contempt for the person or talents of any one without deep remorse, it is because your conscience is seared.
text: When you can think of sin without horror, something as they would feel at such a thought in heaven, it is because your conscience is seared.