Matthew 5:45

A Conservative Version

so that ye may become sons of your Father in the heavens, because he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and makes rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Cross References

Psalm 145:9

LORD is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works.

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad.

Acts 14:17

although he did not leave himself without evidence, doing good and giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts of food and gladness.

Job 25:3

Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom does his light not arise?

Ephesians 5:1

Become ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Matthew 5:9

Blessed are the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God.

John 13:35

By this all men will know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love among each other.

1 John 3:9

Every man who has been begotten of God is not doing sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

Jeremiah 5:24

Neither do they say in their heart, Let us now fear LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Philippians 2:15

so that ye may become blameless and pure children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.