Matthew 5:45

New English Translation

so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Cross References

Job 25:3

Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to all, and has compassion on all he has made.

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say to themselves, “Let us revere the Lord our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.”

Matthew 5:9

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

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people.

John 13:35

Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples – if you have love for one another.”

Acts 14:17

yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.”

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

Philippians 2:15

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world

1 John 3:9

Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.