Matthew 5:47

The Passion Translation

How are you any different from others if you limit your kindness only to your friends? Don’t even the ungodly do that?

Cross References

Luke 6:32

“Are you really showing true love by loving only those who love you? Even those who don’t know God will do that.

Matthew 5:20

For I tell you, unless your lives are more pure and full of integrity than the religious scholars and the Pharisees, you will never enter heaven’s kingdom.”

1 Peter 2:20

For what merit is it to endure mistreatment for wrongdoing? Yet if you are mistreated when you do what is right, and you faithfully endure it, this is commendable before God.

Matthew 10:12

Once you enter a house, speak to the family there and say, ‘God’s blessing of peace be upon this house!’

Matthew 5:46

What reward do you deserve if you only love the loveable? Don’t even the tax collectors do that?

Matthew 5:48

Since you are children of a perfect Father in heaven, become perfect like him.”

Colossians 4:14

And Luke, the beloved physician, sends his warm greetings to you, and Demas also.

Colossians 4:15

Give my greetings to all the believers in Laodicea. And pray for dear Nymphas and the church that gathers in her home.