Acts 14:17

Mistaken For Gods In Lystra

¹⁶ In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways, ¹⁷ yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy." ¹⁸ Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.

Do Good

Deuteronomy 11:14

then he promises, "I will send rain for your land in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.

Job 5:10

he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

Romans 1:19-20

because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

Leviticus 26:4

I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:12

The Lord will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.

Deuteronomy 8:12-14

When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,

1 Kings 18:1

Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, "Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground."

Nehemiah 9:25

They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things -- wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.

Job 37:6

For to the snow he says, 'Fall to earth,' and to the torrential rains, 'Pour down.'

Job 38:26-28

to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert where there are no human beings,

Psalm 19:1-4

For the music director; a psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the sky displays his handiwork.

Psalm 36:5-7

O Lord, your loyal love reaches to the sky; your faithfulness to the clouds.

Psalm 52:1

For the music director; a well-written song by David. It was written when Doeg the Edomite went and informed Saul: "David has arrived at the home of Ahimelech." Why do you boast about your evil plans, O powerful man? God's loyal love protects me all day long!

Psalm 65:9-13

You visit the earth and give it rain; you make it rich and fertile with overflowing streams full of water. You provide grain for them, for you prepare the earth to yield its crops.

Psalm 68:9-10

O God, you cause abundant showers to fall on your chosen people. When they are tired, you sustain them,

Psalm 104:24-28

How many living things you have made, O Lord! You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; the earth is full of the living things you have made.

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to all, and has compassion on all he has made.

Psalm 145:15-16

Everything looks to you in anticipation, and you provide them with food on a regular basis.

Psalm 147:7-8

Offer to the Lord a song of thanks! Sing praises to our God to the accompaniment of a harp!

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

Isaiah 22:13

But look, there is outright celebration! You say, "Kill the ox and slaughter the sheep, eat meat and drink wine. Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say to themselves, "Let us revere the Lord our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest."

Jeremiah 14:22

Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this."

Ezekiel 34:26

I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing.

Joel 2:23

Citizens of Zion, rejoice! Be glad because of what the Lord your God has done! For he has given to you the early rains as vindication. He has sent to you the rains -- both the early and the late rains as formerly.

Matthew 5:45

so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people.

Acts 17:27-28

so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in this world's goods not to be haughty or to set their hope on riches, which are uncertain, but on God who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.

James 5:17-18

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!