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,