Threatenings Merciful
Acts 23:1-11
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.


All denunciations of what will happen to the doer of evil are merciful calls to repentance; and had Ananias turned from those sins which Paul denounced when he spoke of him as a whited wall, he might have been saved from the punishment which befell him, and would have Shared the blessedness given to penitents in the life to come.

(Bp. Wordsworth.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

WEB: Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day."




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