Mat 5:45 | NETfull | STEP | so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Matthew 5:45

45 so that you may be like ^{▼▼ Grk “be sons of your Father in heaven.” Here, however, the focus is not on attaining a relationship (becoming a child of God) but rather on being the kind of person who shares the characteristics of God himself (a frequent meaning of the Semitic idiom “son of”). See L&N 58.26.} your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.