Matthew 5:45

New International Version

that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his 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 forces be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

Psalm 145:9

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

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say to themselves, ‘Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.’

Matthew 5:9

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

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

John 13:35

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Acts 14:17

Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”

Ephesians 5:1

Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children

Philippians 2:15

so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky

1 John 3:9

No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.