Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Bible References
If
Matthew 6:1 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people, to be seen by them. Otherwise, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
Luke 6:32 If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
1 Peter 2:20
For what credit is there if you sin and are punished, and you endure it? But when you do what is good and suffer, if you endure it, this brings favor with God.
Publicans
Matthew 9:10
While He was reclining at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came as guests to eat with Jesus and His disciples.
Matthew 11:19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”
Matthew 18:17 If he pays no attention to them, tell the church. But if he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like an unbeliever and a tax collector to you.
Matthew 21:31 “Which of the two did his father’s will?”
“The first,” they said.
Jesus said to them,“I assure you: Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you!
“The first,” they said.
Jesus said to them,
Luke 15:1
All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to Him.
Luke 18:13 “But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, turn Your wrath from me —a sinner!’
Luke 19:2
There was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.