Acts 14:17 Cross References
Acts 14:17
17: but he never left himself without a witness. There were always his reminders, such as sending you rain and good crops and giving you food and joyful hearts."
Job 5:10
- He gives rain for the earth. He sends water for the fields.
Deuteronomy 11:14
- then he will send the rains in their proper seasons so you can harvest crops of grain, grapes for wine, and olives for oil.
Romans 1:19
- For the truth about God is known to them instinctively. God has put this knowledge in their hearts.
- From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God.
Deuteronomy 8:12
- For when you have become full and prosperous and have built fine homes to live in,
- and when your flocks and herds have become very large and your silver and gold have multiplied along with everything else,
- that is the time to be careful. Do not become proud at that time and forget the LORD your God, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 5:6
- I will make it a wild place. I will not prune the vines or hoe the ground. I will let it be overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no more rain on it."
Joel 2:23
- Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem! Rejoice in the LORD your God! For the rains he sends are an expression of his grace. Once more the autumn rains will come, as well as the rains of spring.
Leviticus 26:4
- I will send the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees will produce their fruit.
Jeremiah 5:24
- They do not say from the heart, `Let us live in awe of the LORD our God, for he gives us rain each spring and fall, assuring us of plentiful harvests.'
Deuteronomy 28:12
- The LORD will send rain at the proper time from his rich treasury in the heavens to bless all the work you do. You will lend to many nations, but you will never need to borrow from them.
Isaiah 22:13
- But instead, you dance and play; you slaughter sacrificial animals, feast on meat, and drink wine. "Let's eat, drink, and be merry," you say. "What's the difference, for tomorrow we die."
Jeremiah 14:22
- Can any of the foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, it comes from you, the LORD our God! Only you can do such things. So we will wait for you to help us.
Luke 6:35
- "Love your enemies! Do good to them! Lend to them! And don't be concerned that they might not repay. Then your reward from heaven will be very great, and you will truly be acting as children of the Most High, for he is kind to the unthankful and to those who are wicked.
Psalms 145:9
- The LORD is good to everyone. He showers compassion on all his creation.
Psalms 68:9
- You sent abundant rain, O God, to refresh the weary Promised Land.
- There your people finally settled, and with a bountiful harvest, O God, you provided for your needy people.
1 Kings 18:1
- After many months passed, in the third year of the drought, the LORD said to Elijah, "Go and present yourself to King Ahab. Tell him that I will soon send rain!"
1 Timothy 6:17
- Tell those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which will soon be gone. But their trust should be in the living God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment.
Nehemiah 9:25
- Our ancestors captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took over houses full of good things, with cisterns already dug and vineyards and olive groves and orchards in abundance. So they ate until they were full and grew fat and enjoyed themselves in all your blessings.
Job 38:26
- Who makes the rain fall on barren land, in a desert where no one lives?
- Who sends the rain that satisfies the parched ground and makes the tender grass spring up?
- "Does the rain have a father? Where does dew come from?
Ezekiel 34:26
- I will cause my people and their homes around my holy hill to be a blessing. And I will send showers, showers of blessings, which will come just when they are needed.
Psalms 19:1
- The heavens tell of the glory of God. The skies display his marvelous craftsmanship.
- Day after day they continue to speak; night after night they make him known.
- They speak without a sound or a word; their voice is silent in the skies;
- yet their message has gone out to all the earth, and their words to all the world. The sun lives in the heavens where God placed it.
Job 37:6
- "He directs the snow to fall on the earth and tells the rain to pour down.
Psalms 145:15
- All eyes look to you for help; you give them their food as they need it.
- When you open your hand, you satisfy the hunger and thirst of every living thing.
Psalms 36:5
- Your unfailing love, O LORD, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.
- Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths. You care for people and animals alike, O LORD.
- How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings.
Psalms 52:1
- You call yourself a hero, do you? Why boast about this crime of yours, you who have disgraced God's people?
Psalms 147:7
- Sing out your thanks to the LORD; sing praises to our God, accompanied by harps.
- He covers the heavens with clouds, provides rain for the earth, and makes the green grass grow in mountain pastures.
Psalms 104:24
- O LORD, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures.
- Here is the ocean, vast and wide, teeming with life of every kind, both great and small.
- See the ships sailing along, and Leviathan, which you made to play in the sea.
- Every one of these depends on you to give them their food as they need it.
- When you supply it, they gather it. You open your hand to feed them, and they are satisfied.
James 5:17
- Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for the next three and a half years!
- Then he prayed for rain, and down it poured. The grass turned green, and the crops began to grow again.
Matthew 5:45
- In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and on the unjust, too.
Acts 17:27
- "His purpose in all of this was that the nations should seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him--though he is not far from any one of us.
- For in him we live and move and exist. As one of your own poets says, 'We are his offspring.'
Psalms 65:9
- You take care of the earth and water it, making it rich and fertile. The rivers of God will not run dry; they provide a bountiful harvest of grain, for you have ordered it so.
- You drench the plowed ground with rain, melting the clods and leveling the ridges. You soften the earth with showers and bless its abundant crops.
- You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.
- The wilderness becomes a lush pasture, and the hillsides blossom with joy.
- The meadows are clothed with flocks of sheep, and the valleys are carpeted with grain. They all shout and sing for joy!