17 Yet (A)he did not leave himself without witness, for he (B)did good by (C)giving you rains from heaven and (D)fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with (E)food and (F)gladness.”

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19 For what can be (A)known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, (B)have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[a] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

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  1. Romans 1:20 Or clearly perceived from the creation of the world

23 (A)“Be glad, O children of Zion,
    and (B)rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given (C)the early rain for your vindication;
    he has poured down for you abundant rain,
    (D)the early and (E)the latter rain, as before.

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10 he gives (A)rain on the earth
    and sends waters on the fields;

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14 (A)he[a] will give the rain for your land in its season, (B)the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.

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  1. Deuteronomy 11:14 Samaritan, Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew I; also verse 15

I will make it a waste;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and (A)briers and thorns shall grow up;
(B)I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no rain upon it.

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17 Elijah was a man (A)with a nature like ours, and (B)he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for (C)three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 (D)Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.

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17 As for the rich in (A)this present age, charge them (B)not to be haughty, nor (C)to set their hopes on (D)the uncertainty of riches, but on God, (E)who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

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26 And I will make them and the places all around my hill (A)a blessing, and (B)I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be (C)showers of blessing.

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24 They do not say in their hearts,
    ‘Let us fear the Lord our God,
(A)who gives the rain in its season,
    the autumn rain and the spring rain,
and keeps for us
    (B)the weeks appointed for the harvest.’

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(A)Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving;
    make melody to our God on (B)the lyre!
He covers the heavens with clouds;
    he prepares (C)rain for the earth;
    he makes (D)grass grow on the hills.

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15 The eyes of all (A)look to you,
    and you give them their food in due season.
16 You (B)open your hand;
    you (C)satisfy the desire of every living thing.

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The Lord is (A)good to all,
    and his mercy is over all that he has made.

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12 The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, (A)to give the rain to your land in its season and (B)to bless all the work of your hands. And (C)you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

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12 (A)lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, 13 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, 14 (B)then your heart be lifted up, and you (C)forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,

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then (A)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.

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27 (A)that they should seek God, (B)and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. (C)Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for

(D)“‘In him we live and move and have our being’;[a]

as even some of (E)your own poets have said,

“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’[b]

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  1. Acts 17:28 Probably from Epimenides of Crete
  2. Acts 17:28 From Aratus's poem “Phainomena”

35 But (A)love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and (B)you will be sons of (C)the Most High, for (D)he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

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22 Are there any among (A)the false gods of the nations (B)that can bring rain?
    Or can the heavens give showers?
Are you not he, O Lord our God?
    We set our hope on you,
    (C)for you do all these things.

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24 O Lord, how manifold are your works!
    In (A)wisdom have you made them all;
    the earth is full of your creatures.
25 Here is the sea, great and wide,
    (B)which teems with creatures innumerable,
    living things both small and great.
26 There go the ships,
    and (C)Leviathan, which you formed to (D)play in it.[a]

27 These (E)all look to you,
    to (F)give them their food in due season.
28 When you give it to them, they gather it up;
    when you (G)open your hand, they are filled with good things.

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  1. Psalm 104:26 Or you formed to play with

(A)Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad;
    you restored your inheritance as it languished;
10 your flock[a] found a dwelling in it;
    in your goodness, O God, you (B)provided for the needy.

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  1. Psalm 68:10 Or your congregation

You visit the earth and (A)water it;[a]
    you greatly enrich it;
(B)the river of God is full of water;
    (C)you provide their grain,
    for so you have prepared it.
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
    settling its ridges,
softening it with (D)showers,
    and blessing its growth.
11 You crown the year with your bounty;
    your wagon tracks (E)overflow with abundance.
12 (F)The pastures of the wilderness overflow,
    the hills (G)gird themselves with joy,
13 (H)the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
    the valleys deck themselves with grain,
    they (I)shout and sing together for joy.

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  1. Psalm 65:9 Or and make it overflow

The Steadfast Love of God Endures

To the choirmaster. A Maskil[a] of David, when (A)Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

52 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
    The steadfast love of God endures all the day.

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  1. Psalm 52:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
    your faithfulness to the clouds.
(A)Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
    (B)your judgments are like the great deep;
    man and beast you (C)save, O Lord.

(D)How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
    The children of mankind take refuge (E)in the shadow of your wings.

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The Law of the Lord Is Perfect

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

19 (A)The heavens declare the glory of God,
    and the sky above[a] proclaims his handiwork.
Day to day pours out speech,
    and night to night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech, nor are there words,
    whose voice is not heard.
(B)Their (C)voice[b] goes out through all the earth,
    and their words to the end of the world.
In them he has set a tent for (D)the sun,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 19:1 Hebrew the expanse; compare Genesis 1:6–8
  2. Psalm 19:4 Or Their measuring line

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