Matthew 5:45 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

⁴⁵ so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁵ that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁵ To show that you are the children of your Father Who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and makes the rain fall upon the upright and the wrongdoers [alike].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁵ that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.

Common English Bible

⁴⁵ so that you will be acting as children of your Father who is in heaven. He makes the sun rise on both the evil and the good and sends rain on both the righteous and the unrighteous.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁵ In this way, you shall be sons of your Father, who is in heaven. He causes his sun to rise upon the good and the bad, and he causes it to rain upon the just and the unjust.

Matthew 5:45 Cross References

Job 25:3

Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made.

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say in their hearts, “Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.”

Matthew 5:9

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.

John 13:35

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Acts 14:17

yet he has not left himself without a witness in doing good—giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, and filling you with food and your hearts with joy.”

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children,

Philippians 2:15

so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world.

1 John 3:9

Those who have been born of God do not sin, because God's seed abides in them; they cannot sin, because they have been born of God.