Hebrews 13:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

Pray for us. Paul usually requests the church's intercessions in closing his letters, as he begins with assuring them of his having them at heart in his prayers (but in this letter not until Hebrews 13:20-21) (Romans 15:30). "Us" includes himself and his companions; he passes to himself alone, Hebrews 13:19.

We trust we have a good conscience - in spite of former jealousies, and the charges of my Jewish enemies at Jerusalem, which are the occasion of my imprisonment at Rome. In refutation of the Jews' aspersions, he asserts in the same language his own conscientiousness before God and man, Acts 23:1-3; Acts 24:16; Acts 24:20-21 (so that his reply to Ananias was not mere impatience; for it was a prophecy which he was inspired to utter, and which was fulfilled soon after). "We trust" [pepoithamen], C, Vulgate. But х peithometha (G3982)] 'we are persuaded,' in A C Delta. Good conscience produces confidence, where the Holy Spirit rules (Romans 9:1).

Honestly, х kalos (G2570)] - 'in a good way.' The same Greek as "good (right) conscience:" literally, rightly.

Hebrews 13:18

18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.