Matthew 5:47
And if you may greet your brothers only, what do you do abundant? Do the nations not also do so?
Literal Standard 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
48You will therefore be perfect, as your Father who [is] in the heavens is perfect.”
Cross References
Matthew 5:20For I say to you that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, you may not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
Luke 6:32and—if you love those loving you, what grace is it to you? For also the sinful love those loving them;
1 Peter 2:20for what renown [is it], if sinning and being battered, you endure [it]? But if, doing good and suffering [for it], you endure, this [is] grace with God,
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 →