Acts 23:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 24:16
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Timothy 1:3
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

Topics

Arbitration Compromise Conscience Conscientiousness Contempt of Court Corruption Court Defense

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

Perhaps when Paul was brought, as he often was (corpus cum causa—the person and the cause together), before heathen magistrates and councils, where he and his cause were slighted, because not at all understood, he thought, if he were brought before the sanhedrim at Jerusalem, he should be able to deal with them to some good purpose, and yet we do not find that he works at all upon them. Here we ha…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Ac 23:1-10. Paul’s Defense before the Sanhedrin Divides the Rival Factions, from Whose Violence the Commandant Has the Apostle Removed into the Fortress. 1. Paul, earnestly beholding the council--with a look of conscious integrity and unfaltering courage, perhaps also recognizing some of his early fellow pupils. I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day--The word has an indirec…