Acts 24:16
And on this account do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence both towards God and towards men.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
17Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
Cross References
Romans 2:15and shew the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience witnessing together with it, and their own thoughts either accusing, or excusing them,)
1 Corinthians 4:4(for I am conscious to myself of nothing; though I am not hereby justified;) but He that judgeth me is the Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:2but have rejected shameful disguises, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth, recommending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.
1 Timothy 1:5so do, and acquaint them that the end of that charge is charity, out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned:
1 Timothy 3:9holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
Titus 1:15To the pure indeed all things are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure; even their mind and conscience is polluted.
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 →