“And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.”
Paul, looking intently at the Council, said, 'Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day' — Paul's claim of 'good conscience' (syneidesis) invokes the Stoic language of moral self-examination, yet grounds it in covenantal faithfulness. His immunity from guilty self-recrimination is forensic: he stands in right relationship with God.
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