Matthew 5:45

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

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.”

Matthew 13:43

13:43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. ³  The one who has ears had better listen! ⁴ 

Matthew 13:49

13:49 It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous

Matthew 23:29

23:29 “Woe to you, experts in the law ⁵  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You ⁶  build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves ⁷  of the righteous.

Matthew 25:37

25:37 Then the righteous will answer him, ⁸  ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

[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).

[13:43]  ³ sn An allusion to Dan 12:3.

[13:43]  ⁴ tn The translation “had better listen!” captures the force of the third person imperative more effectively than the traditional “let him hear,” which sounds more like a permissive than an imperative to the modern English reader. This was Jesus’ common expression to listen and heed carefully (cf. Matt 11:15, 13:9; Mark 4:9, 23; Luke 8:8, 14:35).

[23:29]  ⁴ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:29]  ⁵ tn Grk “Because you.” Here ὅτι (Joti) has not been translated.

[23:29]  ⁶ tn Or perhaps “the monuments” (see L&N 7.75-76).

[25:37]  ⁵ tn Grk “answer him, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.