If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors† do the same?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Matthew 5:47 in context
Matthew 5:44–48
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But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
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that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
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For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
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Selected verse
If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors† do the same?
48
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Source notes
Notes from World English Bible Updated
- NU reads “Gentiles” instead of “tax collectors”.
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