Matthew 5:46
For if you may love those loving you, what reward do you have? Do the tax collectors not also do the same?
Literal Standard Version
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 may greet your brothers only, what do you do abundant? Do the nations not also do so?
Cross References
Matthew 9:10And it came to pass, He reclining in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners having come, were dining with Jesus and His disciples,
Matthew 18:17And if he may not hear them, say [it] to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to you as the heathen man and the tax collector.
Luke 6:32and—if you love those loving you, what grace is it to you? For also the sinful love those loving them;
Luke 18:13And the tax collector, having stood far off, would not even lift up the eyes to the sky, but was striking on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me—the sinner!
Luke 19:7and having seen [it], they were all murmuring, saying, “He went 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 →