¹⁶ Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

³⁰ And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

¹² So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

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:

²⁰ He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.

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:

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.

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;

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.

²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

²³ And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

²⁴ Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

²⁵ Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.