And looking intently at the council, Paul said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day.”
So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.
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.
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.
Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.
For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
as the high priest and the whole council of elders can bear me witness. From them I received letters to the brothers, and I journeyed toward Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished.
But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
But on the next day, desiring to know the real reason why he was being accused by the Jews, he unbound him and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and he brought Paul down and set him before them.
And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
“Brothers and fathers, hear the defense that I now make before you.”
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