Verse 45

that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 145:9 : 9 Good `is' Jehovah to all, And His mercies `are' over all His works.
  • Luke 6:35 : 35 `But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good -- from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;'
  • Job 25:3 : 3 Is their `any' number to His troops? And on whom ariseth not His light?
  • Matt 5:9 : 9 `Happy the peacemakers -- because they shall be called Sons of God.
  • John 13:35 : 35 in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'
  • Eph 5:1 : 1 Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,
  • 1 John 3:9 : 9 every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.