Acts 14:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ In past generations he allowed all peoples to follow their own ways,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ In generations past He permitted all the nations to walk in their own ways;

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ In the past, he permitted every nation to go its own way.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ But certainly, he did not leave himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness."

Acts 14:16 Cross References

Acts 17:30

While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Psalm 81:12

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

1 Peter 4:3

You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Psalm 147:20

He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his ordinances. Praise the Lord!

Ephesians 2:12

remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Micah 4:5

For all the peoples walk, each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.

Hosea 4:17

Ephraim is joined to idols— let him alone.

Romans 3:25

whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;