¹⁶ who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

³⁰ The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

¹² So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, That they might walk in their own counsels.

²⁰ He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know his ordinances. Praise Yah!

⁵ Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; But we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

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, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

²¹ Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

²³ and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

²⁴ Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

²⁵ who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

²⁸ Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

¹² that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.