Matthew 5:47
And if you salute only your near relatives, what praise is due to you? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
In Context
48You however are to be complete in goodness, as your Heavenly Father is complete.
Cross References
Matthew 5:20For I assure you that unless your righteousness greatly surpasses that of the Scribes and the Pharisees, you will certainly not find entrance into the Kingdom of the Heavens.
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.
1 Peter 2:20If you do wrong and receive a blow for it, what credit is there in your bearing it patiently? But if when you do right and suffer for it you bear it patiently, this is an acceptable thing with God.
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 →