Acts 23:1

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Summary

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

Earnestly

Acts 23:6

Acts 6:15

Acts 22:5

I have

1 Peter 3:16

General references

Acts 24:16

Bible References

Earnestly

Knowing that part of them were Sadducees and part of them Pharisees, Paul called out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees! It is for my hope for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial!"

Everyone who sat in the council fixed his eyes on him, and they saw that his face was like that of an angel.

as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. In fact, they gave me letters to the brothers in Damascus and I went there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

I have

Therefore I strive always to have a clear conscience before God and men.

For while my conscience does not trouble me at all, that does not prove that I am innocent. It is the Lord who must examine me.

For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.

I disown disgraceful, underhanded ways. I refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's message. It is by the open statement of the truth that I would commend myself to every human conscience in the sight of God.

I thank God, whom I, like my forefathers, worship with a clear conscience, when I remember you, as I constantly do, in my prayers.

Pray for me, for I am sure I have a clear conscience, and I mean in every way to live an upright life.

and keep your conscience clear, so that those who abuse your upright Christian conduct may be made ashamed of their slanders.

General references

Therefore I strive always to have a clear conscience before God and men.