Matthew 5:46

"For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you?

Montgomery 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

45"So you will become sons of your heavenly Father; for he makes his sun to rise upon sinners as well as saints, and sends rain upon the unjust and the just.

47"Even the tax-gatherers do that, do they not? And if you show courtesy to your brother only, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do that, do they not?

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Cross References

Matthew 9:10And he rose and followed him. And while he was at table in Matthew’s house, there came many tax-gatherers and sinners, and they dined with Jesus and his disciples.

Matthew 18:17"but if he will not heed the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

Luke 6:32"If you love those who love you what credit is it to you? Why even sinners love those who love them.

Luke 18:13"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "‘O God be merciful to me, the sinner!’

Luke 19:7When they all saw it, they began to complain, saying "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a 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 →

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