Acts 14:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in 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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Acts 14:16 Cross References

Psalm 147:20

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

Psalm 81:12

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

Hosea 4:17

Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.

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 for ever and ever.

Acts 17:30

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent,

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.

Romans 3:25

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;

Ephesians 2:12

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

1 Peter 4:3

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.