'Allowed' in the Bible

In past generations He allowed all the nations to go their own way,

and are advocating customs that we're not allowed to accept or practice as Romans."

Therefore God overlooked and disregarded the former ages of ignorance; but now He commands all people everywhere to repent [that is, to change their old way of thinking, to regret their past sins, and to seek God’s purpose for their lives],

As he was about to be brought into the barracks, Paul said to the commander, “Am I allowed to say something to you?”He replied, “Do you know Greek?

And when he had allowed him, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people; and a great silence having been made, he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

They listened to him up to this statement, and then they raised their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he should not be allowed to live!”

The next day we put in at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul kindly and allowed him to go to his friends to receive their care.

And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said to one another, This man is certainly a murderer, whom, though saved out of the sea, Nemesis has not allowed to live.

When we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldier who was guarding him.

If, however, a father thinks he is acting unbecomingly towards his still unmarried daughter if she be past the bloom of her youth, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin; she and her suitor should be allowed to marry.

And all [of them] were baptized into Moses [into his safekeeping as their leader] in the cloud and in the sea;

As in all the churches of the saints, the women must keep silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak out, but must place themselves in submission, as the oral law also says.

With earnest entreaty they begged from us the favour of being allowed to share in the service now being rendered to God's people.

was caught up into paradise. He heard inexpressible words, which a man is not allowed to speak.

and that by [divine] revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I have already written in brief.

But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

They were not allowed to kill them, but were only allowed to torture them for five months. Their torture was like the pain of a scorpion when it stings someone.

The beast was allowed to speak arrogant and blasphemous things, and it was given authority for 42 months.

It was allowed to wage war against the saints and to conquer them. It was also given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.

It deceives those living on earth with the signs that it is allowed to do on behalf of the first beast, telling them to make an image for the beast who was wounded by a sword and yet lived.

The second beast was allowed to impart life to the image of the first beast so that the image of the beast could talk and order the execution of those who would not worship the image of the beast.

Thus no one was allowed to buy or sell things unless he bore the mark of the beast -- that is, his name or his number.

The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, which then was allowed to burn people with fire,