Matthew 5:45

Modern English Version

that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Cross References

Job 25:3

Is there any number to His armies? And upon whom does His light not rise?

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works.

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear the Lord our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”

Matthew 5:9

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

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be the sons of the Highest. For He is kind to the unthankful and the evil.

John 13:35

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

Acts 14:17

Yet He did not leave Himself without witness, for He did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying our hearts with food and gladness.”

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

Philippians 2:15

that you may be blameless and harmless, sons of God, without fault, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world.

1 John 3:9

Whoever has been born of God does not practice sin, for His seed remains in him. And he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.