I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
And looking intently at the council, Paul said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day.”
But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,
holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith,
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.
“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day.
and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?
We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—
For this very night there stood before me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship,
“My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.
and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
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