Matthew 5:45

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

Job 25:3

Is there any limit to the number of his soldiers or to the number of those over whom his light rises?

Psalm 145:9

The Lord watches over new arrivals. He will support the orphan and the widow. And he will destroy the ways of sinners.

Jeremiah 5:24

And they have not said in their heart: 'Let us dread the Lord our God, who gives us the timely and the late rains, in their proper time, who guards the full measure of the yearly harvest for us.'

Matthew 5:9

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Luke 6:35

So truly, love your enemies. Do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return. And then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and to the wicked.

John 13:35

By this, all shall recognize that you are my disciples: if you will have love for one another."

Acts 14:17

And by saying these things, they were barely able to restrain the crowds from immolating to them.

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore, as most beloved sons, be imitators of God.

Philippians 2:15

So may you be without blame, simple sons of God, without reproof, in the midst of a depraved and perverse nation, among whom you shine like lights in the world,

1 John 3:9

All those who have been born of God do not commit sin. For the offspring of God abides in them, and he is not able to sin, because he was born of God.