Acts 14:16 {15}
Good News Translation
In the past he allowed all people to go their own way.

New Revised Standard Version
In past generations he allowed all the nations to follow their own ways;

Contemporary English Version
In times past, God let each nation go its own way.

New American Bible
In past generations he allowed all Gentiles to go their own ways;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who in times past, suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

suffered.

Acts 17:30 And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men that all should every where do penance.

Psalm 81:12 So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Psalm 147:20 He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.

Hosea 4:17 Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him alone.

Romans 1:21-25,28 Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened. . . .

Ephesians 2:12 That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

1 Peter 4:3 For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols.

Context
The Visit to Lystra and Derbe
15And saying: Ye men, why do ye these things? We also are mortals, men like unto you, preaching to you to be converted from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them: 16Who in times past, suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. 17Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.…
Cross References
Psalm 81:12
So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Micah 4:5
And every man shall sit under his vine, and under his fig tree, and there shall be none to make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken.

Acts 17:30
And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men that all should every where do penance.

Romans 3:25
Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

Acts 14:15
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