Matthew 5:46
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the publicans the same?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
In Context
47And if you salute your brethren only, in what do you excel? Do not even the publicans so?
Cross References
Matthew 9:10And it came to pass that, while Jesus was reclining at table in his house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and reclined at table with him and his disciples.
Matthew 18:17But if he refuse to hear them, tell it to the church; and if he also refuse to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen man and a publican.
Luke 6:32And if you love them that love you, what thanks have you? for even sinners love those who love them.
Luke 18:13And the publican, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner.
Luke 19:7And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying: He has gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
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 →