Acts 17:30

Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

29Since then we are God's offspring, we ought not to imagine that His nature resembles gold or silver or marble, or anything sculptured by the art and inventive faculty of man.

31seeing that He has appointed a day on which, before long, He will judge the world in righteousness, through the instrumentality of a man whom He has pre-destined to this work, and has made the fact certain to every one by raising Him from the dead."

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Cross References

Matthew 4:17From that time Jesus began to preach. "Repent," He said, "for the Kingdom of the Heavens is now close at hand."

Mark 1:15"The time has fully come," He said, "and the Kingdom of God is close at hand: repent, and believe this Good News.

Luke 13:5I tell you, certainly not. On the contrary, if you do not repent you will all perish just as they did."

Luke 24:47and that proclamation would be made, in His name, of repentance and forgiveness of sins to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

Acts 11:18This statement of Peter's silenced his opponents. They extolled the goodness of God, and said, "So, then, to the Gentiles also God has given the repentance which leads to Life."

Matthew Henry on Acts 17:23-32

Paul at Athens. 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. 24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed… Read the whole commentary →

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