Matthew 5:46
For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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, what do you more? do not also the heathens this?
Cross References
Matthew 9:10And it came to pass as he was sitting at meat in the house, behold many publicans and sinners came, and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
Matthew 18:17And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican.
Luke 6:32And if you love them that love you, what thanks are to you? for sinners also love those that love them.
Luke 18:13And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O god, be merciful to me a sinner.
Luke 19:7And when all saw it, they murmured, saying, that he was gone to be a guest with a man that was 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 →