¹⁵ Is today the first time ^(A)that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, ^(B)much or little.”

^16 (A)having a good conscience, so that, ^(B)when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. ¹⁷ For ^(C)it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

³⁶ And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, ^(A)he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart ^(B)was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing ^(C)at all until the morning light.

Paul's Change of Plans

¹² For our boast is this, ^(A)the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity^[a] and ^(B)godly sincerity, ^(C)not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

¹¹ With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem ^(A)who were invited guests, and they went in their innocence and knew nothing.

⁵ Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.” ⁶ Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning ^(A)against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.