Matthew 5:46
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Family 35 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 greet only your friends, what are you doing extra? Do not even the tax collectors do so?
Cross References
Matthew 9:10Now it happened, as He was reclining at the table in the house, that many tax collectors and sinners had also come and were reclining at the table with Jesus and His disciples!
Matthew 18:17And should he refuse to hear them, tell it to the congregation. But should he refuse to hear even the congregation, let him be to you just like the heathen and the tax collector.
Luke 6:32Also, if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even ‘sinners’ love those who love them.
Luke 18:13The tax collector, staying a good ways off, did not even venture to look up to heaven, but started beating on his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’
Luke 19:7But when they saw it, they all started complaining, saying, “He has entered 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 →