Acts 14:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.”
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BSBPD
“In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“who in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Acts 14:16 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
- Psalms 147:20He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!
- Hosea 4:17Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!
- Micah 4:5Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
- Acts 17:30Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
- Romans 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
- Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- Ephesians 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
- 1 Peter 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
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