Matthew 5:45 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴⁵ so that you become sons of your Father in the heavens. Because He makes His sun rise on the wicked 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁵ That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.

Matthew 5:45 Cross References

Job 25:3

Is there any number to His armies? And on whom does His light not rise?

Psalm 145:9

יהוה is good to all, And He has compassion on all His works.

Jeremiah 5:24

And they do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear יהוה our Elohim, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He guards for us, the required-by-law, weeks of the harvest.”

Matthew 5:9

“Blessed are the peacemakers, because they shall be called sons of Elohim.

Luke 6:35

Rather, love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting none in return. And your reward shall be great, and you shall be sons of the Most High. Because He is kind to the thankless and wicked ones.

John 13:35

“By this shall all know that you are My taught ones, if you have love for one another.”

Acts 14:17

though, indeed, He did not leave Himself without witness, doing good – giving us rain from heaven and fruit-bearing seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

Ephesians 5:1

Become, then, imitators of Elohim as beloved children.

Philippians 2:15

in order that you be blameless and faultless, children of Elohim without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

1 John 3:9

Everyone having been born of Elohim does not sin, because His seed stays in him, and he is powerless to sin, because he has been born of Elohim.