Acts 14:17

New Century Version

Yet he proved he is real by showing kindness, by giving you rain from heaven and crops at the right times, by giving you food and filling your hearts with joy.”

Cross References

1 Kings 18:1

During the third year without rain, the Lord spoke his word to Elijah: “Go and meet King Ahab, and I will soon send rain.”

Nehemiah 9:25

They captured strong, walled cities and fertile land. They took over houses full of good things, wells that were already dug, vineyards, olive trees, and many fruit trees. They ate until they were full and grew fat; they enjoyed your great goodness.

Job 36:31

This is the way God governs the nations; this is how he gives us enough food.

Job 37:6

He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the shower, ‘Be a heavy rain.’

Job 5:10

He gives rain to the earth and sends water on the fields.

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to everyone; he is merciful to all he has made.

Psalm 4:7

But you have made me very happy, happier than they are, even with all their grain and new wine.

Psalm 52:1

Mighty warrior, why do you brag about the evil you do? God’s love will continue forever.

Isaiah 22:13

But look, the people are happy and are having wild parties. They kill the cattle and the sheep; they eat the food and drink the wine. They say, “Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we will die.”

Isaiah 40:21

Surely you know. Surely you have heard. Surely from the beginning someone told you. Surely you understand how the earth was created.

Isaiah 5:6

I will ruin my field. It will not be trimmed or hoed, and weeds and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Jeremiah 14:22

Do foreign idols have the power to bring rain? Does the sky itself have the power to send down showers? No, it is you, Lord our God. You are our only hope, because you are the one who made all these things.

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say to themselves, ‘We should fear the Lord our God, who gives us autumn and spring rains in their seasons, who makes sure we have the harvest at the right time.’

Ezekiel 34:26

I will bless them and let them live around my hill. I will cause the rains to come when it is time; there will be showers to bless them.

Joel 2:23

So be happy, people of Jerusalem; be joyful in the Lord your God. Because he does what is right, he has brought you rain; he has sent the fall rain and the spring rain for you, as before.

Leviticus 26:4

I will give you rains at the right season; the land will produce crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

Matthew 5:45

If you do this, you will be true children of your Father in heaven. He causes the sun to rise on good people and on evil people, and he sends rain to those who do right and to those who do wrong.

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without hoping to get anything back. Then you will have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God, because he is kind even to people who are ungrateful and full of sin.

Acts 14:18

Even with these words, they were barely able to keep the crowd from offering sacrifices to them.

Acts 17:26

God began by making one person, and from him came all the different people who live everywhere in the world. God decided exactly when and where they must live.

Deuteronomy 11:14

then he will send rain on your land at the right time, in the fall and spring, and you will be able to gather your grain, new wine, and oil.

Deuteronomy 28:12

The Lord will open up his heavenly storehouse so that the skies send rain on your land at the right time, and he will bless everything you do. You will lend to other nations, but you will not need to borrow from them.

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich with things of this world not to be proud. Tell them to hope in God, not in their uncertain riches. God richly gives us everything to enjoy.