Matthew 5:45

Easy To Read Version

If you do this, then you will be true sons of your Father in heaven. Your Father lets the sun rise for the good people and the bad people. Your Father sends rain to people that do good and to people that do wrong.

Cross References

Job 25:3

No person can count his stars. {\cf2\super [44]} \par God’s sun rises on all people.\par

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to every person.\par God shows his mercy to everything he made.\par

Jeremiah 5:24

The people of Judah never say to themselves,\par ‘Let’s fear and respect the Lord our God.\par He gives us autumn and spring rains\par at just the right time.\par He makes sure that we have the harvest\par at just the right time.’\par

Matthew 5:9

What great blessings there are for the people that work to bring peace!\par God will call them his sons and daughters.\par

Luke 6:35

“I’m telling you to love your enemies and do good to them. Lend to people without expecting to get anything back. If you do these things, you will have a great reward. You will be children of the Most High (God). Yes, because God is good even to the people that are full of sin and not thankful.

John 13:35

All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other.”

Acts 14:17

But God was always there doing things that prove he is real. He gives you rain from the sky. He gives you good harvests at the right times. He gives you plenty of food, and he fills your hearts with joy.”

Ephesians 5:1

You are God’s children that he loves. So try to be like God.

Philippians 2:15

Then you will be innocent and without anything wrong in you. You will be God’s children without fault. But you are living with evil people all around you who have become very bad. Among those people you shine like lights in the dark world.

1 John 3:9

When God makes a person his child, that person does not continue to sin. Why? Because the new life God gave that person {\cf2\super [9]} stays in him. So that person is not able to continue sinning. Why? Because he has become a child of God.