Parallel Verses
Weymouth New Testament
In times gone by He allowed all the nations to go their own ways;
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Holman Bible
In past generations He allowed all the nations
International Standard Version
In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways,
A Conservative Version
who in the generations that have passed allowed all the nations to go in their own ways,
American Standard Version
who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Amplified
In generations past He permitted all the nations to go their own ways;
An Understandable Version
God allowed all nations to go their own way in past generations,
Anderson New Testament
who, in past generations, permitted all the nations to walk in their own ways;
Bible in Basic English
Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.
Common New Testament
In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways;
Daniel Mace New Testament
who in past ages has let all Nations proceed in their own ways.
Darby Translation
who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go in their own ways,
Godbey New Testament
who in bygone generations, suffered all nations to walk in their own ways;
Goodspeed New Testament
In ages past he let all the heathen follow their own ways;
John Wesley New Testament
Yet he left not himself without witness,
Julia Smith Translation
Who in past generations suffered all nations to go in their ways.
King James 2000
Who in times past allowed all nations to walk in their own ways.
Lexham Expanded Bible
who in generations that are past permitted all the nations to go their [own] ways.
Modern King James verseion
who in past generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
the which in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Moffatt New Testament
In bygone ages he allowed all nations to go their own ways,
Montgomery New Testament
In bygone generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways,
NET Bible
In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways,
New Heart English Bible
who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Noyes New Testament
who in the ages past suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways;
Sawyer New Testament
who in past generations permitted all nations to walk in their own ways;
The Emphasized Bible
Who in the bygone generations suffered all the nations to be going on in their own ways, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
who in the past generations hath suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In bygone times he permitted all the nations to go their own ways.
Webster
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Williams New Testament
In ages past He let all the heathen go on in their own ways;
World English Bible
who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Worrell New Testament
Who, in the past generations, suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways;
Worsley New Testament
and all things therein, who in generations past suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways: though He left not Himself without witness;
Youngs Literal Translation
who in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways,
Themes
Barnabas » Called jupiter (zeus)
Gentiles » Unclassified sciptures relating to
Lycaonia » Paul visits towns of
Lystra » One of two cities of lycaonia, to which paul and barnabas fled from persecutions in iconium
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 14:16
Prayers for Acts 14:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mistaken For Gods In Lystra
15 We also are but men, with natures kindred to your own; and we bring you the Good News that you are to turn from these unreal things, to worship the ever-living God, the Creator of earth and sky and sea and of everything that is in them. 16 In times gone by He allowed all the nations to go their own ways; 17 and yet by His beneficence He has not left His existence unattested--His beneficence, I mean, in sending you rain from Heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and joyfulness."
Phrases
Cross References
Acts 17:30
Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent,
1 Peter 4:3
For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in-- pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.
Romans 1:21-25
For when they had come to know God, they did not give Him glory as God nor render Him thanks, but they became absorbed in useless discussions, and their senseless minds were darkened.
Romans 1:28
And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.
Ephesians 2:12
At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God, in all the world.