⁴⁴ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,^{(A) 45} that you may be children^(B) of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.^(C)

⁹ “This, then, is how you should pray:

¹¹ If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts^(A) to those who ask him!

⁴⁹ Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. ⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven^(A) is my brother and sister and mother.”

⁹ And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father,^(A) and he is in heaven.

² He said to them, “When you pray, say:

¹³ If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

¹² Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed^(A) in his name,^(B) he gave the right to become children of God^(C)— ¹³ children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.^(D)

¹⁴ The Word became flesh^(E) and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,^(F) the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace^(G) and truth.^(H)

¹⁴ For those who are led by the Spirit of God^(A) are the children of God.^(B)