Matthew 5:46
'For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers the same?
Young's Literal Translation
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 may salute your brethren only, what do ye abundant? do not also the tax-gatherers so?
Cross References
Matthew 9:10And it came to pass, he reclining (at meat) in the house, that lo, many tax-gatherers and sinners having come, were lying (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples,
Matthew 18:17'And if he may not hear them, say [it] to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.
Luke 6:32and — if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them;
Luke 18:13'And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me — the sinner!
Luke 19:7and having seen [it], they were all murmuring, saying — 'With a sinful man he went in to lodge!'
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 →