Acts 14:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

Who in the past allowed all nations to walk in their own ways.

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  • Acts 17:30 : 30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' desires, and they walked in their own counsels.
  • Ps 147:20 : 20 He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise the LORD.
  • Mic 4:5 : 5 For all people will walk, each in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in sensuality, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
  • Hos 4:17 : 17 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.
  • Rom 1:21-25 : 21 Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves, 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • Eph 2:12 : 12 That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

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    17Nevertheless, He did not leave Himself without witness, He did good, giving us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

    18And with these sayings, they barely kept the people from sacrificing to them.

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    15And saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men with similar passions as you and preach to you that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things in them,

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    30Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

  • Acts 17:22-27
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    22Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ Hill and said, Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious.

    23For as I passed by and observed your objects of worship, I found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the one whom you worship without knowing—Him I proclaim to you.

    24God, who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;

    25Nor is He worshipped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things;

    26And has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings;

    27So that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might feel for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

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    17That the rest of mankind might seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, says the Lord, who does all these things.

    18Known to God are all His works from the beginning of the world.

    19Therefore, my judgment is that we should not trouble those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

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    17The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they lived as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm he brought them out of it.

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    20And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

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    3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in sensuality, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

    4Wherein they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

  • 1 Thess 2:14-16
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    14For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Jews:

    15Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God, and are contrary to all men:

    16Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

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    26But now is revealed, and by the prophetic scriptures, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:

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    27And when they had arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all that God had done with them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

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    30Yet for many years You had patience with them and testified against them by Your Spirit in Your prophets. Yet they would not give ear; therefore, You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

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    17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

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    9For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

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    8However, then, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.

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    1God, who at various times and in different manners spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets,

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    3So they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who confirmed the word of His grace by granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

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    24Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves,

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    14For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law to themselves:

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    14Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

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    28For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:

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    42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did you offer to me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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    19Because what may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shown it to them.

    20For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

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    18But those things which God beforehand has shown by the mouth of all His prophets, that Christ should suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

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    21So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, since all glorified God for what had been done.

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    29However, every nation made gods of their own and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, each nation in the cities where they lived.

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    25Who by the mouth of Your servant David has said, Why did the nations rage, and the people plot vain things?

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    11And when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men.

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    18When they heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life.

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    35But in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is accepted by him.

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    16But they and our forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.

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    12So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.

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    26For this reason God gave them up to vile passions: for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.

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    6They became aware of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding region,

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    28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

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    8And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.