Parallel Verses

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?

New American Standard Bible

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

King James Version

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

Holman Bible

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

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

For if you love [only] those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that?

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?

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?

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?

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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

if
ἐάν 
Ean 
Usage: 155

ye love
G25
ἀγαπάω 
Agapao 
Usage: 92

G25
ἀγαπάω 
Agapao 
Usage: 92

you
ὑμᾶς 
Humas 
you, ye, for your sakes Trans, not tr,
Usage: 314

τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 344

μισθός 
Misthos 
Usage: 13

have ye
ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

do
ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372

not
οὐχί 
Ouchi 
not, nay, not, not so
Usage: 32


and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

the publicans
τελώνης 
Telones 
Usage: 12

Context Readings

The Sermon On The Mount: Love For Enemies

45 that so you may become true sons of your Father in Heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the wicked as well as the good, and sends rain upon those who do right and those who do wrong. 46 For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you earned? Do not even the tax-gatherers do that? 47 And if you salute only your near relatives, what praise is due to you? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?


Cross References

Luke 6:32-35

"If you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? Why, even bad men love those who love them.

Matthew 6:1

"But beware of doing your good actions in the sight of men, in order to attract their gaze; if you do, there is no reward for you with your Father who is in Heaven.

Matthew 9:10-11

And while He was reclining at table, a large number of tax-gathers and notorious sinners were of the party with Jesus and His disciples.

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they exclaim, 'See this man! --given to gluttony and tippling, and a friend of tax-gatherers and notorious sinners!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions."

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to hear them, appeal to the Church; and if he refuses to hear even the Church, regard him just as you regard a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

Matthew 21:31-32

Which of the two did as his father desired?" "The first," they said. "I solemnly tell you,' replied Jesus, "that the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners are entering the Kingdom of God in front of you.

Luke 15:1

Now the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners were everywhere in the habit of coming close to Him to listen to Him;

Luke 18:13

"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not so much as lift his eyes to Heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God, be reconciled to me, sinner that I am.'

Luke 19:2

There was a man there called Zacchaeus, who was the local surveyor of taxes, and was wealthy.

Luke 19:7

When they all saw this, they began to complain with indignation. "He has gone in to be the guest of a notorious sinner!" they said.

1 Peter 2:20-23

If you do wrong and receive a blow for it, what credit is there in your bearing it patiently? But if when you do right and suffer for it you bear it patiently, this is an acceptable thing with God.

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