Acts 14:16
“Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.”
Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,
And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.
Related Verses
“Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.”
“After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.”
“And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.”
“Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:”
“And there they abode long time with the disciples.”