and if ye may salute your brethren only, what do ye abundant? do not also the tax-gatherers so?
And coming to the house salute it,
`For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.
`For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers the same?
ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who is in the heavens is perfect.
and--if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them;
Salute you doth Lukas, the beloved physician, and Demas;
salute ye those in Laodicea--brethren, and Nymphas, and the assembly in his house;
for what renown is it , if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure it ? but if, doing good and suffering for it , ye do endure, this is gracious with God,