Matthew 5:45

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

Cross References

Job 25:3

Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made.

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say in their hearts, “Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.”

Matthew 5:9

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

Luke 6:35

Instead, love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. 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

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

Acts 14:17

yet he has not left himself without a witness in doing good, giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons and filling you with food and your hearts with joy.”

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children,

Philippians 2:15

so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world,

1 John 3:9

Those who have been born of God do not sin because God’s seed abides in them; they cannot sin because they have been born of God.