Acts 14:16

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

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  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 14:17-18
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    17Yet, he did not leave himself without a witness, for he gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling you with food and gladness in your hearts.

    18Even with these words, they barely restrained the crowds from sacrificing to them.

  • Acts 14:15
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    15They cried out, 'Men, why are you doing these things? We are also humans with the same nature as you, proclaiming the good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.'

  • Acts 17:30
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    30In the past, God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

  • Acts 17:22-27
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    22Paul then stood up in the middle of the Areopagus and said, 'Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.

    23As I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So, you are worshiping in ignorance the very one I proclaim to you.

    24The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands.

    25Nor is he served by human hands as if he needed anything, since he himself gives everyone life, breath, and everything else.

    26From one man, he made every nation of mankind to live on the entire face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation.

    27He did this so that they would seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel their way toward him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.

  • Acts 15:17-19
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    17so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, including all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord, who does these things'

    18'—things known long ago.'

    19Therefore, my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who are turning to God.

  • Acts 13:17-18
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    17The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, and He made the people prosper during their stay in Egypt. With an uplifted arm, He led them out of it.

    18For about forty years He endured their behavior in the wilderness.

  • 1 Chr 16:20
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    20they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3For 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.

    4They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

  • 1 Thess 2:14-16
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    14For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews.

    15They killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and they drove us out. They do not please God and are hostile to everyone.

    16They forbid us to speak to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way, they constantly fill up the measure of their sins. But the wrath of God has come upon them fully.

  • Rom 16:26
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    26But now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all the nations might believe and obey him—

  • Acts 14:27
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    27When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all that God had done through them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

  • Neh 9:30
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    30For many years, You were patient with them. You warned them by Your Spirit through Your prophets, yet they would not listen. So You gave them into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

  • Eph 4:17
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    17Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds.

  • 1 Thess 1:9
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    9For they themselves tell about how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.

  • Gal 4:8
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    8But in the past, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those who by nature are not gods.

  • Heb 1:1
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    1Long ago, at many times and in various ways, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets.

  • Acts 14:3
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    3So Paul and Barnabas stayed there for a considerable time, speaking boldly in reliance on the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by granting signs and wonders to be done through their hands.

  • Rom 1:24
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    24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

  • Rom 2:14
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    14For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things required by the law, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

  • Dan 9:14
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    14Therefore, the LORD has kept the disaster in store and brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in everything He does, yet we have not obeyed His voice.

  • Acts 15:28
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    28For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place any greater burden on you except these necessary things:

  • Acts 7:42
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    42But God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you bring me offerings and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?'

  • Rom 1:19-20
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    19For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

    20For since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes—His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

  • Acts 3:18
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    18But God fulfilled what He had foretold through the mouths of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer.

  • Acts 4:21
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    21After further threats, they let them go, finding no way to punish them because of the people, since they were all glorifying God for what had happened.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
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    29But each nation made its own gods and set them up in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made—each nation in the towns where they lived.

  • Acts 4:25
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    25'You spoke through the mouth of your servant David, saying: Why did the nations rage, and the peoples plot in vain?'

  • Acts 14:11
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    11When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices in the Lycaonian language, saying, 'The gods have come down to us in human form!'

  • Acts 11:18
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    18When they heard this, they became silent and glorified God, saying, 'So then, God has granted repentance leading to life even to the Gentiles.'

  • Acts 10:35
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    35but in every nation, the one who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.

  • Neh 9:16
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    16But they, our ancestors, acted arrogantly. They stiffened their necks and did not obey Your commandments.

  • Rom 14:12
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    12So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.

  • Rom 1:26
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    26For this reason, God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature.

  • Acts 14:6
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    6Paul and Barnabas became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia—Lystra and Derbe—and the surrounding region.

  • Rom 1:28
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    28And 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.

  • Acts 15:14
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    14Simeon has explained how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for His name.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
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    8They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.