so that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven. Because He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and unjust.
And they do not say in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God who gives both the former and the latter rain in its time. He keeps for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
But love the ones hostile to you, and do good, and lend, causing no one to despair, and your reward will be much; and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind to the unthankful and evil ones.
And yet He did not leave Himself without witness, doing good, giving rain and fruitful seasons to us from heaven, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
that you may be blameless and guileless, children of God, without fault in the midst of a crooked generation, even being perverted, among whom you shine as luminaries in the world,
Everyone having been regenerated of God does not sin, because His seed abides in him, and he is not able to sin, because he has been generated from God.