Acts 23:1
And Paul having earnestly beheld the Sanhedrin, said, “Men, brothers, I have lived to God in all good conscience to this day”;
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2and the chief priest Ananias commanded those standing by him to strike him on the mouth,
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Proverbs 28:1The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer, || And the righteous is confident as a young lion.
Acts 22:1“Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defense now to you.”
Acts 22:30and the next day, intending to know the certainty for what reason he is accused by the Jews, he loosed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their Sanhedrin to come, and having brought down Paul, he set [him] before them.
Acts 24:16and in this I exercise myself, to always have a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;
2 Timothy 1:3I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that I unceasingly have remembrance concerning you in my supplications 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 →