Acts 14:16
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
KJV
ὃς ἐν ταῖς παρῳχημέναις γενεαῖς εἴασεν πάντα τὰ ἔθνη πορεύεσθαι ταῖς ὁδοῖς αὐτῶν·
Greek NT
Et quidem non sine testimonio semetipsum reliquit benefaciens de cælo, dans pluvias et tempora fructifera, implens cibo et lætitia corda nostra.
Vulgate
who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways.
ASV
Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γενεά
genea
noun · 43×
παροίχομαι
paroichomai
verb · 1×
πορεύομαι
poreuomai
verb · 155×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ἐάω
eao
verb · 11×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔθνος
ethnos
noun · 162×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁδός
odos
noun · 101×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§36The Acts of the Apostles provides evidence that Christian proclamation was engaged from the very first with the philosophical currents of the time. In Athens, we read, Saint Paul entered into discussion with “certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers” (17:18); and exegetical analysis of his speech at the Areopagus has revealed frequent allusions to popular beliefs deriving for t…
In the Old Testament, God revealed this secret of his will to a small number; in the New Testament (now that the distinction between peoples has been removed) he discloses it to a large number. The reason for this difference must not be ascribed to the greater worth of one nation over another, or to a better use of the light of nature, but to the free good pleasure and undeserv…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 4:3 — For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
- Acts 17:30 — And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
- Acts 17:30 — And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
- Deut 18:14 — For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
- Eph 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
- Isa 44:18 — They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
- Isa 60:2 — For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
- Isa 63:19 — We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
- Mic 4:5 — For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
- Ps 81:12 — So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
- Ps 81:12 — So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
- Ps 147:20 — He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
- Ps 147:20 — He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
- Rom 1:19 — Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
- Rom 1:21 — Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
- Rom 1:24 — Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
- Rom 1:28 — And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;