Matthew 5:46
For if ye should love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not also the tax-gatherers the same?
Darby Translation
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
Cross References
Matthew 9:10And it came to pass, as he lay at table in the house, that behold, many tax-gatherers and sinners came and lay at table with Jesus and his disciples.
Matthew 18:17But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.
Luke 6:32And if ye love those that love you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners love those that love them.
Luke 18:13And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.
Luke 19:7And all murmured when they saw [it], saying, He has turned in to lodge with a sinful man.
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 →