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Acts 14:16

In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.

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ASV

who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways.

KJV

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ὃςhoswhoG3739 →
ἐνeninG1722 →
ταῖςtaistheG3588 →
παρῳχημέναιςparōchēmenaishaving pastG3944 →
γενεαῖςgeneaisgenerationsG1074 →
εἴασενeiasenallowedG1439 →
πάνταpantaallG3956 →
τὰtatheG3588 →
ἔθνηethnēnationsG1484 →
πορεύεσθαιporeuesthaito goG4198 →
ταῖςtaisin theG3588 →
ὁδοῖςhodoiswaysG3598 →
αὐτῶν·autōnof them;G846 →

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Isaiah 44:18They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.Romans 1:24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.Acts 17:30Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.Psalms 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.Psalms 147:20He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!Isaiah 60:2For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.Micah 4:5Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.Ephesians 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.Romans 1:21–25For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.1 Peter 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.Isaiah 63:19We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.Deuteronomy 18:14Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.Hosea 4:17Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!Romans 2:14Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.Daniel 3:7Therefore, as soon as all the people heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, and all kinds of music, the people of every nation and language would fall down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.Ephesians 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

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