Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
If you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don't they?
A Conservative Version
For if ye love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the tax collectors the same?
American Standard Version
For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Amplified
An Understandable Version
For if you love [only] those who love you, what reward will you get for that? Do not even the publicans [Note: These were people with a bad reputation for their dishonest tax collecting activities] do that much?
Anderson New Testament
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the publicans the same?
Bible in Basic English
For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?
Common New Testament
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Daniel Mace New Testament
but if you love only them who love you, what reward can ye have? do not the heathens themselves do as much?
Darby Translation
For if ye should love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not also the tax-gatherers the same?
Godbey New Testament
For if you love those that love you, what reward have ye? because the publicans also do the same.
Goodspeed New Testament
For if you love only those who love you, what reward can you expect? Do not the very tax-collectors do that?
John Wesley New Testament
For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye?
Julia Smith Translation
For if ye love them loving you, what reward. have you? do not also the tax collectors the same?
King James 2000
For if you love them who love you, what reward have you? do not even the tax collectors the same?
Lexham Expanded Bible
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not the tax collectors also do the same?
Modern King James verseion
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax-collectors do the same?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For if ye love them which love you, what reward shall ye have? Do not the Publicans even so?
Moffatt New Testament
For if you love only those who love you, what reward do you get for that? do not the very taxgatherers do as much?
Montgomery New Testament
"For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you?
NET Bible
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don't they?
Noyes New Testament
For if ye love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same?
Sawyer New Testament
For if you love those that love you, what reward have you? Do not the publicans the same?
The Emphasized Bible
For, if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? are not, even the tax-collectors, the same thing, doing?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For if ye love those who love you, what reward have you? do not even the publicans the same thing?
Twentieth Century New Testament
For, if you love only those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax-gatherers do this!
Webster
For if ye love them who love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Weymouth New Testament
For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you earned? Do not even the tax-gatherers do that?
Williams New Testament
For if you practice loving only those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax-collectors practice that?
World English Bible
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
Worrell New Testament
For, if ye love those who love you, what reward have ye? do not even the tax-collectors the same?
Worsley New Testament
For if ye love only them that love you, what reward do ye expect? do not even the publicans the same?
Youngs Literal Translation
'For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers the same?
Topics
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 5:46
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Sermon On The Mount: Love For Enemies
45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Cross References
Luke 6:32-35
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
Matthew 6:1
"Be careful that you do not do your righteousness before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 9:10-11
And it happened as he sat in the house, it happened that many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
Matthew 11:19
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.' But wisdom is justified by her actions."
Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to hear the church also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
Matthew 21:31-32
Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.
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, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, 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
And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
1 Peter 2:20-23
For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.