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Acts 24:16

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So I always try not to do anything that God or people would consider wrong.

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Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin. “My brothers,” he said, “I’ve always done my duty to God. To this day I feel that I have done nothing wrong.”

I’m commanding you to do this for the sake of love, which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and sincere faith.

Instead, we refuse to do secret and shameful things. We don’t trick anyone, and we don’t twist God’s word. We do just the opposite! We present the truth plainly so that everyone can judge us in their own conscience before God.

So let’s draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings. Our hearts have been sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts. Their consciences are also helping them to know right from wrong. Sometimes they get the feeling that they’ve done wrong, but at other times they recognize that they’ve done right. It’s the ones who have obeyed the law who will be declared right with God.

With God’s help, we’ve acted toward everyone, and especially toward you, honorably and honestly. We can say that with pride and a clear conscience. We’ve depended on God’s grace and not on the world’s wisdom.

The water of the flood is a picture of the way that baptism now saves you too. It doesn’t save you by washing the dirt off your body. Instead, it’s your way of promising God that you’ll keep a clear conscience by the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead.

To people who are pure, all things are pure. But to those who have twisted minds and don’t believe, nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are corrupted.

I don’t feel I have done anything wrong, but that doesn’t mean I’m not guilty. It’s the Lord who judges me.

Keep your conscience clear, so that even if people say bad things about you as believers in Christ, they’ll be ashamed when the way you live proves them wrong.

If a person is punished unfairly and they take it patiently because they want to obey God, they deserve to be praised for that.

Pray for us. We’re sure that we’ve done what’s right, but we want to keep on living honorably in every way.

So how much cleaner will the blood of Christ make us! He offered himself to God without any flaw through the power of the eternal Holy Spirit. His blood washes away our feelings of guilt for committing sin. Sin always leads to death. But now we can serve the living God.

I serve God, as did our people of long ago, with a clear conscience, and I thank God as I remember you constantly in my prayers, night and day.

You’re witnesses, and so is God, that we led holy, godly, and blameless lives among you believers.

They must hold on to the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience.

and hold on to faith and a clear conscience. Some people have rejected these things, and now their faith is like a sinking ship.

I don’t want any of you to think that I’m not concerned about the people of Israel. They’re my family, my own flesh and blood. (I’m not lying, I’m telling you the truth as one in Christ—my conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm it.)

Don’t do anything that causes other people to trip and fall, whether Jews or Greeks or God’s church.




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