Acts 24:16

And I do exercise myself in this, always to have a conscience void of offense toward God and man.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

In Context

15having hope in God, which they themselves also admit, that I there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and of the unjust.

17But, after many years, I came to bring charitable gifts to my nation, and offerings.

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Cross References

Romans 2:15For when the Gentiles, who have not a law, do, by nature, the things of the law, these who have not a law, are a law to themselves,

1 Corinthians 4:4For, though I am conscious of no wrong, yet by this I am not justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.

2 Corinthians 4:2but we have renounced the secret works of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

1 Timothy 1:5(Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and out of a good conscience, and out of faith unfeigned:

1 Timothy 3:9holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure: but to the denied and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and their conscience are denied.

Matthew Henry on Acts 24:11-22

Paul's Third Defence. 10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself: 11 Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship. 12 And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city: 13 Neither can they prove the… Read the whole commentary →

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