Matthew 5:46
For, if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans do this?
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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 salute your brethren only, what do ye that is not common? Do not even publicans do this?
Cross References
Matthew 9:10And as they were reclining in a house, many publicans an sinners came and reclined with Jesus and his disciples.
Matthew 18:17And if he will also not hear them, tell it to the church. And if he will also not hear the church, let him be to thee as a publican and a heathen.
Luke 6:32For, if ye love them that love you, what goodness is it in you? For even sinners love those that love them.
Luke 18:13And the publican stood afar off, and would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, and said: God, be merciful to me, a sinner.
Luke 19:7And when they all saw it, they murmured, and said: He hath gone in to be guest with a man that 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 →