Acts 17:30 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Acts 17:30 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 14:16
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Titus 2:11-12
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, …
Luke 24:47
And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
1 Peter 4:3
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:
Ephesians 4:17-32
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-31)

We have here St. Paul’s sermon at Athens. Divers sermons we have had, which the apostles preached to the Jews, or such Gentiles as had an acquaintance with and veneration for the Old Testament, and were worshippers of the true and living God; and all they had to do with them was to open and allege that Jesus is the Christ; but here we have a sermon to heathens, that worshipped false gods, and were…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 30)

30. the times of this ignorance God winked at--literally (and far better), “overlooked,” that is, bore with, without interposing to punish it, otherwise than suffering the debasing tendency of such worship to develop itself (compare Ac 14:16, and see on Ro 1:24, &c.). but now--that a new light was risen upon the world. commandeth--“That duty--all along lying upon man estranged from his Creator, bu…