Matthew 5:46 KJV — MannaFest

Matthew 5:46

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

KJV

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ASV

For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

WEB

If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even tax collectors do the same?

YLT

`For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers the same?

DBT

For if ye should love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not also the tax-gatherers the same?

About this book

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Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.

Author: Matthew (Levi), a former tax collector called by Jesus
Date: c. AD 50–60

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Cross-references

16 verses on the floor

Luke 6:32–35
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
2 Chronicles 15:7
Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
Luke 14:12
Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
1 Peter 2:20–23
For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Colossians 3:24
Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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If God's grace and goodness are (as they certainly are) his glory, then the glory of the gospel is the glory that excels, for grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. iii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The meaning, then, is, "In loving those who love you, there is no evidence of superior principle; the worst of men will do this: even a publican will go that length."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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G505721× in canon G340829× in canon G378054× in canon G25143× in canon G1437352× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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