Matthew 5:46

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by her works.” Reproaches to Unrepentant Towns.

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church. If he refuses to listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector.

Matthew 5:47

And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same?

Matthew 6:1

“[But] take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father.

Mark 2:15

While he was at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners sat with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many who followed him.

Mark 2:16

Some scribes who were Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors and said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 15:1

The tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to him,

Luke 18:13

But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’

Luke 19:2

Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man,

Luke 19:7

When they all saw this, they began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner.”

Luke 3:12

Even tax collectors came to be baptized and they said to him, “Teacher, what should we do?”

Luke 5:29

Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were at table with them.

Luke 5:30

The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 7:29

(All the people who listened, including the tax collectors, and who were baptized with the baptism of John, acknowledged the righteousness of God;

Luke 7:34

The Son of Man came eating and drinking and you said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’