Matthew 5:46
For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you earned? Do not even the tax-gatherers do that?
Weymouth NT (1912)
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
Cross References
Matthew 9:10And while He was reclining at table, a large number of tax-gathers and notorious sinners were of the party with Jesus and His disciples.
Matthew 18:17If he refuses to hear them, appeal to the Church; and if he refuses to hear even the Church, regard him just as you regard a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.
Luke 6:32"If you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? Why, even bad men love those who love them.
Luke 18:13"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not so much as lift his eyes to Heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "`O God, be reconciled to me, sinner that I am.'
Luke 19:7When they all saw this, they began to complain with indignation. "He has gone in to be the guest of a notorious sinner!" they said.
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 →