Acts 14:16 Cross References - Living_Oracles

¹⁶ who, in former generations, permitted all the nations to walk in their own ways;

³ For the time which has passed of life, is sufficient to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, having walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excesses in wine, revellings, carousals, and abominable idolatries.

³⁰ For though God overlooked the times of ignorance, he now makes proclamation to all men, everywhere, to reform;

²¹ Because, though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, neither gave him thanks; but became foolish by their own reasonings, and their inconsiderate heart was darkened. ²² Professing to be wise men, they became fools: ²³ for they changed the glory of the immortal God into the likeness of an image of mortal man, of fowls, or four-footed beasts, and of reptiles. ²⁴ Therefore, also, God, through the lusts of their own hearts, delivered them over to uncleanness, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves. ²⁵ Who changed the truth concerning God, into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature, rather than the Creator, who is forever blessed. Amen.

²⁸ And as they did not like to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to an undiscerning mind, to work those things which are not suitable;

¹² were in the world at that time, without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the institutions of promise; having no hope, and without God: