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16 In past generations he allowed all peoples to follow their own ways,(A)

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16 In the past, he let(A) all nations go their own way.(B)

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30 While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent,(A)

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30 In the past God overlooked(A) such ignorance,(B) but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.(C)

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12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
    to follow their own counsels.(A)

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12 So I gave them over(A) to their stubborn hearts
    to follow their own devices.

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You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(A)

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For you have spent enough time in the past(A) doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.(B)

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20 He has not dealt thus with any other nation;
    they do not know his ordinances.
Praise the Lord!(A)

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20 He has done this for no other nation;(A)
    they do not know(B) his laws.[a]

Praise the Lord.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 147:20 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint nation; / he has not made his laws known to them

12 remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.(A)

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12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners(A) to the covenants of the promise,(B) without hope(C) and without God in the world.

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For all the peoples walk,
    each in the name of its god,
but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
    forever and ever.(A)

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All the nations may walk
    in the name of their gods,(A)
but we will walk in the name of the Lord
    our God for ever and ever.(B)

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28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.(A)

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28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over(A) to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

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21 for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless hearts were darkened.(A) 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.(B)

24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.(C) 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.(D)

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21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.(A) 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools(B) 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images(C) made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 Therefore God gave them over(D) in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.(E) 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,(F) and worshiped and served created things(G) rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.(H) Amen.(I)

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17 Ephraim is joined to idols—
    let him alone.

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17 Ephraim is joined to idols;
    leave him alone!

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