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Matthew 5:45

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5:45 so that you may be like 1  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 9:13

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9:13 Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ 2  For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

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[5:45]  1 tn 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.

[9:13]  2 sn A quotation from Hos 6:6 (see also Matt 12:7).



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