Acts 14:16

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In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways,

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  • Acts 17:30 : 30 Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.
  • Ps 147:20 : 20 He has not done so with any other nation; they are not aware of his regulations. Praise the LORD!
  • Mic 4:5 : 5 Though all the nations follow their respective gods, we will follow the LORD our God forever.
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.
  • Hos 4:17 : 17 Ephraim has attached himself to idols; Do not go near him!
  • Rom 1:21-25 : 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.
  • Eph 2:12 : 12 that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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  • Acts 14:17-18
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    17yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.”

    18Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.

  • Acts 14:15
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    15“Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

  • Acts 17:30
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    30Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,

  • Acts 17:22-27
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    22So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said,“Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.

    23For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you.

    24The God who made the world and everything in it, who is 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, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

    26From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

    27so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

  • Acts 15:17-19
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    17so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,’ says the Lord, who makes these things

    18known from long ago.

    19“Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra difficulty for those among 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 made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

    18For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

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

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

    4So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

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

    15who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,

    16because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.

  • Rom 16:26
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    26but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–

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

  • Neh 9:30
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    30You prolonged your kindness with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

  • Eph 4:17
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    17Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

  • 1 Thess 1:9
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    9For people everywhere report 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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    8Heirs of Promise Are Not to Return to Law Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

  • Heb 1:1
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    1¶ Introduction: God Has Spoken Fully and Finally in His Son After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,

  • Acts 14:3
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    3So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting miraculous signs and wonders to be performed through their hands.

  • Rom 1:24
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    24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

  • Rom 2:14
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    14For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

  • Dan 9:14
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    14The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.

  • Acts 15:28
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    28For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place any greater burden on you than these necessary rules:

  • Acts 7:42
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    42But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

  • Rom 1:19-20
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    19because 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, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

  • Acts 3:18
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    18But the things God foretold long ago through all the prophets– that his Christ would suffer– he has fulfilled in this way.

  • Acts 4:21
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    21After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
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    29But each of these nations made its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

  • Acts 4:25
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    25who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather,‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?

  • Acts 14:11
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    11So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language,“The gods have come down to us in human form!”

  • Acts 11:18
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    18When they heard this, they ceased their objections and praised God, saying,“So then, God has granted the repentance that leads to life even to the Gentiles.”

  • Acts 10:35
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    35but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.

  • Neh 9:16
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    16“But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

  • Rom 14:12
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    12Therefore, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

  • Rom 1:26
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    26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

  • Acts 14:6
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    6Paul and Barnabas learned about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region.

  • Rom 1:28
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    28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

  • Acts 15:14
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    14Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
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    8they observed the practices of the nations whom the LORD had driven out from before them, and followed the example of the kings of Israel.