Matthew 5:45

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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 shall be called sons of God.

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish.

John 13:35

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

Acts 14:17

yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

Philippians 2:15

that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

1 John 3:9

No one born of God commits sin; for God's nature abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God.