Acts 14:16

American Standard Version (1901)

who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways.

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  • Acts 17:30 : 30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
  • Ps 147:20 : 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.
  • Mic 4:5 : 5 For all the peoples walk every one in the name of his god; and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
  • Hos 4:17 : 17 Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
  • Rom 1:21-25 : 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • Eph 2:12 : 12 that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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