Acts 14:17

Yet God always testified to Himself through rain, harvests, food, and gladness. Creation's good gifts are a universal witness to the Creator's kindness.

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• Rom 1:19–20For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
• Joel 2:23Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
• Job 5:10He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
• Deut 11:14then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.
• Isa 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
• Deut 8:12–14Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
• Deut 28:12The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
• 1 Tim 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
• Ps 145:15–16The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
• Ps 147:7–8Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make music on the harp to our God,
• Jer 5:24They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
• Jas 5:17–18Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
• Ps 145:9The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
• Ezek 34:26I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.
• Lev 26:4I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
• Ps 19:1–4For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
• Ps 68:9–10You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.
• Ps 36:5–7Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
• Jer 14:22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
• Job 37:6For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
• 1 Kgs 18:1After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”
• Ps 65:9–13You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
• Acts 17:27–28God 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.
• Ps 104:24–28How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
• Ps 52:1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
• Neh 9:25They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.
• Luke 6:35But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
• Job 38:26–28to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
• Isa 22:13But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
• Matt 5:45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

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