Matthew 5:46

Tree of Life Version

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, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

Matthew 18:17

But if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to Messiah’s community. And if he refuses to listen even to Messiah’s community, let him be to you as a pagan and a tax collector.

Matthew 5:47

And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than anyone else? Even the pagans do that, don’t they?

Matthew 6:1

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before others to be seen by them; otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Mark 2:15

Now it happens that Yeshua was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, and many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Yeshua and His disciples. For there were many, and they were following Him.

Mark 2:16

When the Torah scholars of the Pharisees saw Him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they began to say to His disciples, “With tax collectors and sinners He eats?”

Luke 15:1

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to hear Yeshua.

Luke 18:13

“But the tax collector, standing some distance away, wouldn’t even lift his eyes toward heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’

Luke 19:2

And here was a man by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

Luke 19:7

But when everyone saw it, they began to grumble, saying, “Yeshua has gone to be the guest of a sinner!”

Luke 3:12

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

Luke 5:29

Levi made a great banquet for Yeshua at his house, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

Luke 5:30

The Pharisees and their Torah scholars began murmuring to His disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 7:29

And when all the people heard, even the tax collectors, they affirmed God’s justice, because they had been immersed with John’s immersion.

Luke 7:34

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