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 is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.
• Joel 2:23“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
• Job 5:10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
• Deut 11:14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
• Isa 5:6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
• Deut 8:12–14lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;
• Deut 28:12Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
• 1 Tim 6:17Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
• Ps 145:15–16The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.
• Ps 147:7–8Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God,
• Jer 5:24Neither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
• Jas 5:17–18Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
• Ps 145:9Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
• Ezek 34:26I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
• Lev 26:4then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
• Ps 19:1–4For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
• Ps 68:9–10You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.
• Ps 36:5–7Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
• Jer 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
• Job 37:6For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth;’ likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.
• 1 Kgs 18:1After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”
• Ps 65:9–13You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
• Acts 17:27–28that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
• Ps 104:24–28Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
• Ps 52:1For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.” Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
• Neh 9:25They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
• Luke 6:35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
• Job 38:26–28To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;
• Isa 22:13and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”
• Matt 5:45that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

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