Acts 14:16
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16 In past generations he allowed all peoples to follow their own ways,(A)
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Acts 17:30
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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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Psalm 81:12
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12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.(A)
1 Peter 4:3
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3 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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Psalm 147:20
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20 He has not dealt thus with any other nation;
they do not know his ordinances.
Praise the Lord!(A)
Ephesians 2:12
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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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Micah 4:5
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5 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)
Romans 1:28
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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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Romans 1:21-25
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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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Hosea 4:17
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17 Ephraim is joined to idols—
let him alone.
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