Luke 6:32

If you love only those who love you, what thanks will be due to you? Why, even the outcast love those who love them!

Matthew 5:46-47

For, if you love only those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax-gatherers do this!

1 Peter 2:19-20

For this wins God's approval when, because conscious of God's presence, a man who is suffering unjustly bears his troubles patiently.

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Summary

For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

Bible References

If

Matthew 5:46
For, if you love only those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax-gatherers do this!

What

1 Peter 2:19
For this wins God's approval when, because conscious of God's presence, a man who is suffering unjustly bears his troubles patiently.