Matthew 5:45

English Majority Text Version

so that you may prove to be sons of your Father in heaven; because He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and He sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Cross References

Matthew 5:9

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

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping to receive nothing back; and your reward shall be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.

John 13:35

By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

Acts 14:17

And yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, giving to you rains from heaven and fruitbearing seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

Philippians 2:15

in order that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world,

1 John 3:9

No one who has been born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.