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 1:19–20Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
• Joel 2:23Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
• Job 5:10Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
• Deut 11:14That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
• Isa 5:6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
• Deut 8:12–14Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
• Deut 28:12The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
• 1 Tim 6:17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
• Ps 145:15–16The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
• Ps 147:7–8Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
• Jer 5:24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
• Jas 5:17–18Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
• Ps 145:9The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
• Ezek 34:26And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
• Lev 26:4Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
• Ps 19:1–4The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
• Ps 68:9–10Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
• Ps 36:5–7Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
• Jer 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
• Job 37:6For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
• 1 Kgs 18:1And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
• Ps 65:9–13Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
• Acts 17:27–28That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
• Ps 104:24–28O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
• Ps 52:1Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
• Neh 9:25And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
• Luke 6:35But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
• Job 38:26–28To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
• Isa 22:13And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
• Matt 5:45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

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