And, if you show courtesy to your brothers only, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do this!
As you enter the house, greet it.
Indeed I tell you that, unless your religion is above that of the Teachers of the Law, and Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
For, if you love only those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax-gatherers do this!
You, then, must become perfect--as your heavenly Father is perfect.
If you love only those who love you, what thanks will be due to you? Why, even the outcast love those who love them!
Luke, our dear doctor, sends you his greeting, and Demas sends his.
Give my greeting to the Brethren at Laodicea, and to Nymphe, and to the Church that meets at her house.
What credit can you claim when, after doing wrong, you take your punishment for it patiently? But, on the other hand, if, after doing right, you take your sufferings patiently, that does win the approval of God.