Matthew 5:47
If you only speak kindly to your family, what more are you doing than anyone else? Even the heathen do that!
Free Bible 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
48Grow up and become completely trustworthy, just as your heavenly Father is trustworthy.”
Cross References
Matthew 5:20I tell you, unless your moral rightness is more than that of the religious teachers and the Pharisees, you can never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 6:32If you love those who love you, why should you deserve any credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them.
1 Peter 2:20However, there's no credit when you're punished for doing something wrong. But if you suffer for doing what is good and right, and you put up with it, then God's grace is with you.
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 →