Acts 24:16

For this cause indeed I exert my utmost care to keep my conscience ever unoffending towards God and towards man.

Thomas Haweis 1795 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

15and having hope in God, the same which they also profess to look for, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and of the unjust.

17Now after many years absence I was returned bringing alms to my countrymen, and oblations to the temple.

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Cross References

Romans 2:15which exhibit the practice of the law written on their hearts, their conscience also bearing its testimony, and their mutual reasonings at intervals bringing accusations or forming excuses;)

1 Corinthians 4:4For though I am not conscious to myself of any unfaithfulness, yet am I not thereby justified; but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

2 Corinthians 4:2but have renounced all shameful secret practices, not conducting ourselves with artifice, nor deceitfully disguising the word of God, but by clear manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience as in the presence of God.

1 Timothy 1:5For the end of the commandment is love out of a clean heart, and good conscience, and faith unfeigned:

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

Titus 1:15All things indeed are clean to the clean: but to the defiled and to the unbelievers there is nothing clean; but their very mind and conscience are defiled.

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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