Acts 24:25

Righteousness; doing right towards God and man.

Temperance; the proper regulation of the appetites and passions.

Judgment to come; the future general judgment, when all will receive from Christ according to their works. Chap Acts 17:31; Matthew 25:31-46.

Felix trembled; in view of his sins, and his prospects at the coming judgment.

A convenient season; such a season does not seem ever to have arrived. When conviction of sin produces fearful forebodings of coming wrath, different persons take opposite courses. One inquires, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" The Lord shows him, leads him to do it, and he is saved. Chap Acts 9:6. Another dismisses the subject, continues in known sin, and goes down to perdition. "To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts." "He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." Hebrews 3:7-8; Proverbs 29:1.