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Acts 17:30

James Moffatt - New Testament

Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

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In bygone ages he allowed all nations to go their own ways,

and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;

Repent then, and turn to have your sins blotted out, so that a breathing-space may be vouchsafed you,

Or are you slighting all his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not know his kindness is meant to make you repent?

Yes, as they disdained to acknowledge God any longer, God has given them up to a reprobate instinct, for the perpetration of what is improper,

bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

I tell you, no; unless you repent you will all perish as they did."

Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.

On hearing this they desisted and glorified God, saying, "So God has actually allowed the Gentiles to repent and live!"

So they went out and preached repentance;

he said, "The time has now come, God's reign is near: repent and believe in the gospel."

"Repent, the Reign of heaven is near."

the pain God is allowed to guide ends in a saving repentance never to be regretted, whereas the world's pain ends in death.

So, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over a single sinner who repents."

From that day Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, the Reign of heaven is near."

All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God,

'Because nobody hired us,' they said. He told them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'




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