Matthew 5:46
For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Revised Version 1895
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 more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?
Cross References
Matthew 9:10And it came to pass, as he sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
Matthew 18:17And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican.
Luke 6:32And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye? for even sinners love those that love them.
Luke 18:13But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me a sinner.
Luke 19:7And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, He is gone in to lodge 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 →