Rain falls on the just and the unjust.
Today, a very unjust fella
Made sure it fell only on the just,
When he walked off with my umbrella!

There are many quotations that are falsely attributed to the Bible. Some of them are pretty gross. Two of the ones that can be mentioned, in a family oriented book, are the one about cleanliness being next to godliness and the one that claims that God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform. There are people who will argue with you, until they are blue in the face, that their favorite quotation is in the Bible. Once in Vietnam, I corrected a young sergeant who was quoting a particular offensive “scripture” to justify his off base dalliances. He was so sure he was right, that after spending a whole night searching for it in a borrowed Bible, he went to a chaplain for help. The chaplain agreed with him and claimed that he had used the scripture in a paper he had written in Bible School. He bet me a steak dinner. The bet got spread from building to building and soon you could walk in any office and see men thumbing through their Bibles. It was before the day of computerized Bibles so the good outcome was that a whole lot of Bible study went on. I never got my steak dinner because, even though he couldn’t find the scripture, the chaplain insisted that he knew it was in there. I said all of this to point out that even though I have been told it is a bogus scripture, the quotation about rain on the just and the unjust is factual, Matt 5:45. “Spare the rod and spoil the child,” is another bogus quotation however it is based on scripture, Prov. 13:24. My wife’s brother, in an attempt to avoid a spanking, once changed the quotation around a bit and told his mother that the Bible says that you should spare the rod and spoil the child.The quotation,
“Spare the rod and spoil the child,” is actually from a poem by Samuel Butler, written back in the eighteen hundreds.

Matt. 5:45