Acts 17:30

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“The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,”

— WEB

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

— KJV

“The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:”

— ASV

Bible Verses About Repentance

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Acts 14:16 "who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways."
Titus 2:11-12 "For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,"
Luke 24:47 "and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem."
Romans 3:25 "whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice,or, a propitiation through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through …"
1 Peter 4:3 "For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies,…"
Ephesians 4:17-32 "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,"
Acts 26:17-20 "delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,"
Romans 2:4 "Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?"

Commentary

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 Act 14:16, and see on Rom 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, but hitherto only silently recommending itself and little felt--is now peremptory." all men every where to repent--(compare Col 1:6, Col 1:23; Tit 1:11) --a tacit allusion to the narrow precincts of favored Judaism, within which immediate and entire repentance was ever urged. The word "repentance" is here used (as in Luk 13:3, Luk 13:5; Luk 15:10) in its most comprehensive sense of "repentance unto life."

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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