He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know his ordinances. Praise the LORD!
Acts 14:16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In generations past He permitted all the nations to walk in their own ways; American Standard Version (1901) who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways. Common English Bible In the past, he permitted every nation to go its own way. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. |
He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know his ordinances. Praise the LORD!
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;
that you were at that time separate from Messiah, alienated from the commonwealth of Yisra'el, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.