Acts 23:1
And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day.
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Proverbs 28:1The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.
Acts 22:1My brothers and fathers, give ear to the story of my life which I now put before you.
Acts 22:30But on the day after, desiring to have certain knowledge of what the Jews had to say against him, he made him free, and gave orders for the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to come together, and he took Paul and put him before them.
Acts 24:16And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
2 Timothy 1:3I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day
Matthew Henry on Acts 23:1
The close of the foregoing chapter left Paul in the high priest's court, into which the chief captain (whether to his advantage or no I know not) had removed his cause from the mob; and, if his enemies act there against him with less noise, yet it is with more subtlety. Now here we have, I. Paul's protestation of his own integrity, and of a civil respect to the high priest, however he had upon a sudden spoken warmly to him, and justly, ver. 1-5 . II. Paul's prudent contrivance to get himself clear of them, by… Read the whole commentary →