Acts 14:16

New Living Translation

In the past he permitted all the nations to go their own ways,

Cross References

Psalm 147:20

He has not done this for any other nation; they do not know his regulations. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 81:12

So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas.

Hosea 4:17

Leave Israel alone, because she is married to idolatry.

Micah 4:5

Though the nations around us follow their idols, we will follow the Lord our God forever and ever.

Acts 17:30

“God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him.

Romans 1:28

Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.

Romans 3:25

For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past,

Ephesians 2:12

In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.

1 Peter 4:3

You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.