Acts 14:16

Good News Translation

In the past he allowed all people to go their own way.

Cross References

Psalm 147:20

He has not done this for other nations; they do not know his laws. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 81:12

So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.

Hosea 4:17

The people of Israel are under the spell of idols. Let them go their own way.

Micah 4:5

Each nation worships and obeys its own god, but we will worship and obey the Lord our God forever and ever.

Acts 17:30

God has overlooked the times when people did not know him, but now he commands all of them everywhere to turn away from their evil ways.

Romans 1:28

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.

Romans 3:25

God offered him, so that by his blood he should become the means by which people's sins are forgiven through their faith in him. God did this in order to demonstrate that he is righteous. In the past he was patient and overlooked people's sins; but in the present time he deals with their sins, in order to demonstrate his righteousness. In this way God shows that he himself is righteous and that he puts right everyone who believes in Jesus.

Ephesians 2:12

At that time you were apart from Christ. You were foreigners and did not belong to God's chosen people. You had no part in the covenants, which were based on God's promises to his people, and you lived in this world without hope and without God.

1 Peter 4:3

You have spent enough time in the past doing what the heathen like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols.