Matthew 5:47
And if ye only greet your friends, what do ye extra? Do not even the tax collectors this way?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
In Context
46For if ye love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the tax collectors the same?
48Ye therefore shall be perfect, even as your Father in the heavens is perfect.
Cross References
Matthew 5:20For I say to you, that unless your righteousness abounds more than of the scholars and Pharisees, ye will, no, not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
Luke 6:32And if ye love those who love you, what credit is for you? For even sinners love those who love them.
1 Peter 2:20For what kind of credit is it, if, sinning and being beaten, ye will endure? But if, doing good and suffering, ye will endure, this is graciousness with God.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 5:44-48
The Sermon on the Mount. 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do… Read the whole commentary →