Acts 14:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.””
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“Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And yet he left not himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good--from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 14:17 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 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.
- Deuteronomy 8:12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
- Deuteronomy 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.
- Deuteronomy 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 Kings 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.”
- Nehemiah 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.
- Job 5:10He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
- Job 37:6For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
- Job 38:26to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
- Psalms 19:1The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
- Psalms 36:5Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
- Psalms 52:1Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
- Psalms 65:9You 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.
- Psalms 68:9You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.
- Psalms 104:24How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
- Psalms 145:9The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
- Psalms 145:15The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
- Psalms 147:7Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make music on the harp to our God,
- Isaiah 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.”
- Isaiah 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!”
- Jeremiah 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.’
- Jeremiah 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.
- Ezekiel 34:26I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.
- 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.
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