Matthew 5:46
For if ye love those who love you, what reward have you? do not even the publicans the same thing?
Thomas Haweis 1795 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 ye embrace your brethren only, what do ye extraordinary? do not even the publicans so?
Cross References
Matthew 9:10And it came to pass, as he sat in his house, many tax-gatherers and sinners came, and sat down at table with Jesus and his disciples.
Matthew 18:17But if he disregard them, inform the church: and if he disregard the church, let him be to thee as a heathen, or a publican.
Luke 6:32And if ye love them that love you, what thanks are due to you? for even sinners love those who love them.
Luke 18:13And the tax-gatherer standing at a distance, would not even so much as lift his eyes heaven-ward, but smote on his breast, saying, May God accept the atonement for me a sinner!
Luke 19:7And when they all saw it, they murmured, saying, That he is gone to lodge with a man, a notorious 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 →