Verse 16

Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.

Referenced Verses

  • Acts 17:30 : 30 Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
  • Ps 147:20 : 20 He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
  • Mic 4:5 : 5 For all the peoples will be walking, every one in the name of his god, and we will be walking in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;
  • Hos 4:17 : 17 Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.
  • Rom 1:21-25 : 21 Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark. 22 Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, 23 And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth. 24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another: 25 Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
  • Eph 2:12 : 12 That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.