1 And looking intently at the council, Paul said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all sgood conscience up to this day.”
16 So I always take pains to have a xclear conscience toward both God and man.
Paul’s Change of Plans
12 For our boast is this, the testimony of our qconscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity1 and godly rsincerity, not by searthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
2 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. tWe refuse to practice1 cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth uwe would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
Guard the Deposit Entrusted to You
3 fI thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a gclear conscience, as I hremember you iconstantly in my prayers jnight and day.
