These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.
Acts 17:30 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Such [former] ages of ignorance God, it is true, ignored and allowed to pass unnoticed; but now He charges all people everywhere to repent (to change their minds for the better and heartily to amend their ways, with abhorrence of their past sins), American Standard Version (1901) The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent: Common English Bible God overlooks ignorance of these things in times past, but now directs everyone everywhere to change their hearts and lives. Catholic Public Domain Version And indeed, God, having looked down to see the ignorance of these times, has now announced to men that everyone everywhere should do penance. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men, that all should every where do penance. |
These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.
The watchman says: “Morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again.”
They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’
From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel.”
Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
When they heard this they were silenced. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance unto life.”
In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways;
For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance to God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.
Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins;
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.
Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.