Matthew 5:45

New Living Translation

In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.

Cross References

Job 25:3

Who is able to count his heavenly army? Doesn’t his light shine on all the earth?

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to everyone. He showers compassion on all his creation.

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say from the heart, ‘Let us live in awe of the Lord our God, for he gives us rain each spring and fall, assuring us of a harvest when the time is right.’

Matthew 5:9

God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God.

Luke 6:35

“Love your enemies! Do good to them. Lend to them without expecting to be repaid. Then your reward from heaven will be very great, and you will truly be acting as children of the Most High, for he is kind to those who are unthankful and wicked.

John 13:35

Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

Acts 14:17

but he never left them without evidence of himself and his goodness. For instance, he sends you rain and good crops and gives you food and joyful hearts.”

Ephesians 5:1

Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children.

Philippians 2:15

so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.

1 John 3:9

Those who have been born into God’s family do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of God.