Mat 5:45, 1Pe 1:3, 1Jo 3:1-2, 5:1 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

k[See ver. 1 above]

l Rom. 8:15; Gal. 3:26; Eph. 1:5

m[Rom. 8:18; 2 Cor. 4:17]

n ch. 2:28

p Rom. 8:29; 2 Cor. 3:18; 4:11; Phil. 3:21; 2 Pet. 1:4

q John 17:24; 1 Cor. 13:12; Rev. 22:4

r John 1:12

s ch. 2:22

t John 8:42

Matthew 5:45

45 ^aso 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 ^bsends rain on the just and on the unjust.

1 Peter 1:3

Born Again to a Living Hope

3 ^cBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! ^dAccording to his great mercy, ^ehe has caused us to be born again to a living hope ^fthrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 John 3:1-2

1 See ^gwhat kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called ^hchildren of God; and so we are. The reason why ⁱthe world does not know us is that ^jit did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are ^kGod’s children ^lnow, and what we will be ^mhas not yet appeared; but we know that ⁿwhen he appears ^{▼▼Or when it appears} ^pwe shall be like him, because ^qwe shall see him as he is.

1 John 5:1

Overcoming the World

1 ^rEveryone who believes that ^sJesus is the Christ has been born of God, and ^teveryone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.