Matthew 5:45

New Century Version

If you do this, you will be true children of your Father in heaven. He causes the sun to rise on good people and on evil people, and he sends rain to those who do right and to those who do wrong.

Cross References

Job 25:3

No one can count God’s armies. His light shines on all people.

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to everyone; he is merciful to all he has made.

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say to themselves, ‘We should fear the Lord our God, who gives us autumn and spring rains in their seasons, who makes sure we have the harvest at the right time.’

Matthew 5:9

They are blessed who work for peace, for they will be called God’s children.

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without hoping to get anything back. Then you will have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God, because he is kind even to people who are ungrateful and full of sin.

John 13:35

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

Acts 14:17

Yet he proved he is real by showing kindness, by giving you rain from heaven and crops at the right times, by giving you food and filling your hearts with joy.”

Ephesians 5:1

You are God’s children whom he loves, so try to be like him.

Philippians 2:15

Then you will be innocent and without any wrong. You will be God’s children without fault. But you are living with crooked and mean people all around you, among whom you shine like stars in the dark world.

1 John 3:9

Those who are God’s children do not continue sinning, because the new life from God remains in them. They are not able to go on sinning, because they have become children of God.