To truly pick up the message of faith and run with it, your conscience can’t condemn you. In other words you must live in all integrity before God. If there are dark areas in your life that you don’t want to let go of, then faith remains a mystery. Yet get rid of and cast off all the hidden sins that are stumbling blocks, then the eyes of your understanding will be enlightened.
The mystery of Faith is in a pure Conscience.
1 Timothy 1:5 The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
1 Timothy 1:19 holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith