Matthew 5:46

World Messianic Bible British Edition

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

Cross References

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

Matthew 5:47

If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

Matthew 6:1

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Mark 2:15

He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Yeshua and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

Mark 2:16

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 15:1

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

Luke 18:13

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Luke 19:2

There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

Luke 19:7

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

Luke 3:12

Tax collectors also came to be immersed, and they said to him, “Rabbi, what must we do?”

Luke 5:29

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

Luke 5:30

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 7:29

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been immersed with Yochanan’s immersion.

Luke 7:34

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