Matthew 5:46

New English Translation

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don’t they?

Cross References

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to listen to the church, treat him like a Gentile or a tax collector.

Matthew 5:47

And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they?

Matthew 6:1

“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

Mark 2:15

As Jesus was having a meal in Levi’s home, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.

Mark 2:16

When the experts in the law and the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 15:1

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.

Luke 18:13

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!’

Luke 19:2

Now a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.

Luke 19:7

And when the people saw it, they all complained, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”

Luke 3:12

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

Luke 5:29

Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.

Luke 5:30

But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 7:29

(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

Luke 7:34

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’