Acts 17:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁰ While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ 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)

³⁰ The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

Common English Bible

³⁰ God overlooks ignorance of these things in times past, but now directs everyone everywhere to change their hearts and lives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ And indeed, God, having looked down to see the ignorance of these times, has now announced to men that everyone everywhere should do penance.

Acts 17:30 Cross References

Acts 14:16

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

Luke 24:47

and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

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.

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;

Acts 3:19

Repent, therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out,

Romans 2:4

Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not realize that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

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.

Acts 20:21

as I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

Luke 13:5

No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish just as they did.”

Psalm 50:21

These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one just like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

Acts 17:23

For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

Acts 11:18

When they heard this, they were silenced. And they praised God, saying, “Then God has given even to the gentiles the repentance that leads to life.”

Mark 6:12

So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent.

Mark 1:15

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.”

Matthew 3:2

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.

Luke 15:10

Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Matthew 4:17

From that time Jesus began to proclaim, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”

Romans 3:23

since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;

Isaiah 21:12

The sentinel says: “Morning comes and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again.”

Matthew 20:7

They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard.’