| Acts 14:16 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "In the generations gone by He permitted all the nations to go their own ways; (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | In the past God allowed all people to live as they pleased.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. |
| ASV: | who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways. |
| BBE: | Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them. |
| DBY: | who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go in their own ways, |
| ERV: | who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways. |
| WEY: | In times gone by He allowed all the nations to go their own ways; |
| WBS: | Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. |
| WEB: | who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. |
| YLT: | who in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways, |
| Acts 14:16 Cross References |
| XREF: | Psalm 81:12 "So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk in their own devices.
Micah 4:5 Though all the peoples walk Each in the name of his god, As for us, we will walk In the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
Acts 17:30 "Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 14:16 {5} Who in times past {g} suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
(5) Custom, be it ever so old, does not excuse the idolaters.
(g) Allowed them to live as they wished, prescribing and appointing them no type of religion. |
| PNT: | 14:16 Who in times past. He had left the nations to their own conceits until it should be demonstrated that man by searching cannot find out God. The efforts of human wisdom were a failure. |
| WES: | 14:16 Who in times past - He prevents their objection, But if these things are so, we should have heard the in from our fathers. Suffered - An awful judgment, all nations - The multitude of them that err does not turn error into truth, to walk in their own ways - The idolatries which they had chosen. |
| MHC: | 14:8-18 All things are possible to those that believe. When we have faith, that most precious gift of God, we shall be delivered from the spiritual helplessness in which we were born, and from the dominion of sinful habits since formed; we shall be made able to stand upright and walk cheerfully in the ways of the Lord. When Christ, the Son of God, appeared in the likeness of men, and did many miracles, men were so far from doing sacrifice to him, that they made him a sacrifice to their pride and malice; but Paul and Barnabas, upon their working one miracle, were treated as gods. The same power of the god of this world, which closes the carnal mind against truth, makes errors and mistakes find easy admission. We do not learn that they rent their clothes when the people spake of stoning them; but when they spake of worshipping them; they could not bear it, being more concerned for God's honour than their own. God's truth needs not the services of man's falsehood. The servants of God might easily obtain undue honours if they would wink at men's errors and vices; but they must dread and detest such respect more than any reproach. When the apostles preached to the Jews, who hated idolatry, they had only to preach the grace of God in Christ; but when they had to do with the Gentiles, they must set right their mistakes in natural religion. Compare their conduct and declaration with the false opinions of those who think the worship of a God, under any name, or in any manner, is equally acceptable to the Lord Almighty. The most powerful arguments, the most earnest and affectionate addresses, even with miracles, are scarcely enough to keep men from absurdities and abominations; much less can they, without special grace, turn the hearts of sinners to God and to holiness. |
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