Acts 14:16

World English Bible (2000)

who in the generations gone by allowed 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 commands that all people everywhere should repent,
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
  • Ps 147:20 : 20 He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know his ordinances. Praise Yah!
  • Mic 4:5 : 5 Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
  • Hos 4:17 : 17 Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!
  • Rom 1:21-25 : 21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • Eph 2:12 : 12 that you 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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    30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

  • Acts 17:22-27
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    22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

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    24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,

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    26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

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    17 That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.

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

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    20 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

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    3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

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

    15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;

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    27 When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

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

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

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