Matthew 5:45

New American Bible - revised edition

that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.

Cross References

Job 25:3

Is there any numbering of his troops? Yet on which of them does his light not rise?

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to all, compassionate toward all your works.

Jeremiah 5:24

And do not say in their hearts, “Let us fear the Lord, our God, Who gives us rain early and late, in its time; Who watches for us over the appointed weeks of harvest.”

Matthew 5:9

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Luke 6:35

But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.

John 13:35

This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” Peter’s Denial Predicted.

Acts 14:17

yet, in bestowing his goodness, he did not leave himself without witness, for he gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, and filled you with nourishment and gladness for your hearts.”

Ephesians 5:1

So be imitators of God, as beloved children,

Philippians 2:15

that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like lights in the world,

1 John 3:9

No one who is begotten by God commits sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot sin because he is begotten by God.