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Acts 23:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day.

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The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.

My brothers and fathers, give ear to the story of my life which I now put before you.

But on the day after, desiring to have certain knowledge of what the Jews had to say against him, he made him free, and gave orders for the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to come together, and he took Paul and put him before them.

Of which the high priest will be a witness, and all the rulers, from whom I had letters to the brothers; and I went into Damascus, to take those who were there as prisoners to Jerusalem for punishment.

So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down to you, as if you were desiring to go into the business in greater detail; and we, before ever he gets to you, will be waiting to put him to death.

And he said, The Jews are in agreement together to make a request to you for Paul to be taken, on the day after this, into the Sanhedrin, to be questioned in greater detail.

And, desiring to get at the reason for their attack on him, I took him down to their Sanhedrin:

But when Paul saw that half of them were Sadducees and the rest Pharisees, he said in the Sanhedrin, Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees: I am here to be judged on the question of the hope of the coming back from the dead.

Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation:

And all those who were in the Sanhedrin, looking at him, saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.

For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.

I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day

Make prayers for us, for we are certain that our hearts are free from the sense of sin, desiring the right way of life in all things.

Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.




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