Acts 24:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ Herein do I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men alway.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Therefore I always exercise and discipline myself [mortifying my body, deadening my carnal affections, bodily appetites, and worldly desires, endeavoring in all respects] to have a clear (unshaken, blameless) conscience, void of offense toward God and toward men.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Herein I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ On account of this, I have committed myself to maintaining a clear conscience before God and with all people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And in this, I myself always strive to have a conscience that is lacking in any offence toward God and toward men.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And herein do I endeavour to have always a conscience without offence toward God, and towards men.

Acts 24:16 Cross References

Acts 23:1

And Paul, looking stedfastly on the council, said, Brethren, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day.

Romans 2:15

in that they shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing them;

Romans 9:1

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Ghost,

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:

1 Corinthians 4:4

For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

2 Corinthians 4:2

but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:

1 Timothy 1:19

holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith:

1 Timothy 1:5

But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

1 Timothy 3:9

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

2 Timothy 1:3

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure conscience, how unceasing is my remembrance of thee in my supplications, night and day

Titus 1:15

To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed with pure water:

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honestly in all things.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

1 Peter 2:19

For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully.

1 Peter 3:16

having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.

1 Peter 3:21

which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;