Acts 14:16 {15}
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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,

Lexicon
In
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

past
παρῳχημέναις (parōchēmenais)
Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 3944: To pass away time. From para and oichomai; to escape along, i.e. Be gone.

generations,
γενεαῖς (geneais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 1074: From genos; a generation; by implication, an age.

[He]
ὃς (hos)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3739: Who, which, what, that.

let
εἴασεν (eiasen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1439: To allow, permit, let alone, leave. Of uncertain affinity; to let be, i.e. Permit or leave alone.

all
πάντα (panta)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

nations
ἔθνη (ethnē)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 1484: Probably from etho; a race, i.e. A tribe; specially, a foreign one.

go
πορεύεσθαι (poreuesthai)
Verb - Present Infinitive Middle or Passive
Strong's Greek 4198: To travel, journey, go, die.

their
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Neuter 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

[own]
ταῖς (tais)
Article - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

way.
ὁδοῖς (hodois)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 3598: A way, road, journey, path. Apparently a primary word; a road; by implication, a progress; figuratively, a mode or means.


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

who in the generations past allowed all the nations to go their own ways.

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

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

who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go in their own ways,

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

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

In times gone by He allowed all the nations to go their own ways;

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

who in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways,
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