Matthew 5:46

Modern English Version

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Cross References

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a gluttonous man, a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Matthew 5:47

And if you greet your brothers only, what are you doing more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so?

Matthew 6:1

“Be sure that you do not do your righteous deeds before men to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Mark 2:15

As Jesus was at supper in his house, many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with Jesus and His disciples. For there were many, and they followed Him.

Mark 2:16

When the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eating with tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, “How is it that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 15:1

Now all the tax collectors and sinners drew near to Him to hear Him.

Luke 18:13

“But the tax collector, standing at a distance, would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but struck his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner.’

Luke 19:2

And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

Luke 19:7

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”

Luke 3:12

Then tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”

Luke 5:29

Then Levi made Him a great feast in his house. And there was a group of many tax collectors and others who sat down with them.

Luke 5:30

But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against His disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 7:29

All the people who heard Him, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God as righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

Luke 7:34

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking. But you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’