Verse 16

In past generations, he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 17:30 : 30 In the past, God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.
  • Ps 147:20 : 20 He has not done this for any other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!
  • Mic 4:5 : 5 Though all the nations walk in the name of their gods, we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For you have already spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
  • Hos 4:17 : 17 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.
  • Rom 1:21-25 : 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools. 23 And they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, animals, and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is forever praised. Amen.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
  • Eph 2:12 : 12 were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.