Acts 23:1 Cross References - Lamsa

¹ AND as Paul beheld their assembly, he said, Men, my brethren, I have lived i n all good conscience before God until this day.

¹⁵ Then all who were seated at the council looked at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

¹ BRETHREN and fathers, hear my defense which I now make to you.

⁵ The high priest and all the elders can so testify about me, for it was from them that I received letters to go to the brethren at Damascus, to bring those who were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.

³⁰ The next day, because he desired to know the truthfulness of the charges which the Jews had brought against Paul, he unbound him and commanded the high priests and all their council to appear before him, and he took Paul and brought him down, and set him before them.

⁶ Now when Paul perceived that part of the people were SadÆdu-cees, and the others were PharÆi-sees, he cried out in the assembly, Men, my brethren, I am a PharÆi-see, the son of a PharÆi-see: and it is because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead that I am here to be judged.

¹⁶ For this reason, I labor to have always a clear conscience before God and before men.

⁴ For I know nothing of which I am guilty; yet I may not be right in this, for my judge is the LORD.

¹² For our joy is this, the testimony of our conscience, in sincerity and in purity with the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in this world, and not through the wisdom of the flesh; and above all, we have so dealt with you.

² But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, and we do not practice cunning, nor do we handle the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every manÆs conscience before God.

³ I thank God, whom I have served from boyhood with a pure conscience, that I have always remembered you in my prayers night and day.

¹⁸ Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

¹⁶ Having a good conscience; so that they who speak evil of you, as of evil doers, may be ashamed as men who belittle your good works in Christ.