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Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
Acts 17:30 · Berean Standard Bible
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
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27 God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.
28 ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
29 Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
30 Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
31 For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”
33 At that, Paul left the Areopagus.
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