Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
'For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers 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?
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?
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?
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 ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous. 46 'For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers the same? 47 and if ye may salute your brethren only, what do ye abundant? do not also the tax-gatherers so?
Cross References
Luke 6:32-35
and -- if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them;
Matthew 6:1
Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not -- reward ye have not from your Father who is in the heavens;
Matthew 9:10-11
And it came to pass, he reclining (at meat) in the house, that lo, many tax-gatherers and sinners having come, were lying (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples,
Matthew 11:19
the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'
Matthew 18:17
And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.
Matthew 21:31-32
which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, 'The first.' Jesus saith to them, 'Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,
Luke 15:1
And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him,
Luke 18:13
And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner!
Luke 19:2
and lo, a man, by name called Zaccheus, and he was a chief tax-gatherer, and he was rich,
Luke 19:7
and having seen it, they were all murmuring, saying -- 'With a sinful man he went in to lodge!'
1 Peter 2:20-23
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,