Acts 14:16 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁶ In the past, God let all the nations do what they wanted.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 147:20

God did not do this for any other nation.\par God did not teach his laws to other people.\par Praise the Lord!\par \par \par

Psalm 81:12

So I let them do what they wanted to do.\par Israel did anything they wanted to do.\par

Hosea 4:17

Ephraim {\cf2\super [47]} has joined his idols. {\cf2\super [48]} So leave him alone.

Micah 4:5

All the people \{from other nations\}\par follow their own gods.\par But we will follow the Lord our God\par forever and ever! {\cf2\super [50]} \par

Acts 17:30

In the past, people did not understand God, but God ignored this. But now, God tells every person in the world to change his heart and life.

Romans 1:28

People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed those people to have their own worthless thinking. And so those people do the things that they should not do.

Romans 3:25

God gave Jesus as a way to forgive people’s sins through faith. God forgives by the blood (death) of Jesus. God gave Jesus to show that he always does what is right and fair. God was right in the past when he was patient and did not punish people for their sins.

Ephesians 2:12

Remember that in the past you were without Christ. You were not citizens of Israel. {\cf2\super [11]} And you did not have the agreements {\cf2\super [12]} with the promise \{that God made to his people\}. You had no hope, and you did not know God.

1 Peter 4:3

In the past you wasted too much time doing the things that the non-believers like to do. You were doing sexual sins. You were doing the evil things you wanted. You were becoming drunk, having wild and wasteful parties, having drunken parties, and doing wrong by worshiping idols (false gods).