Acts 24:10-16

New King James Version

The Defense Before Felix

¹⁰ Then Paul, after the governor had nodded to him to speak, answered: “Inasmuch as I know that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself, ¹¹ because you may ascertain that it is no more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem ^(A)to worship. ^12 (B)And they neither found me in the temple disputing with anyone nor inciting the crowd, either in the synagogues or in the city. ¹³ Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me. ¹⁴ But this I confess to you, that according to ^(C)the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the ^(D)God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in ^(E)the Law and in the Prophets. ^15 (F)I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, ^(G)that there will be a resurrection ^[a]of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. ^16 (H)This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.