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
"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.
Luke 6:32
If you love only those who love you, what merit is there in that? For even godless people love those who love them.
Publicans
Matthew 9:10
While Jesus was at home at table, a number of tax-collectors and irreligious people came in and joined Jesus and his disciples at table.
Matthew 11:19
Now that the Son of Man has come, he does eat and drink, and people say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drinker, the companion of tax-collectors and irreligious people!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions!"
Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell the congregation. And if he refuses to listen to it, treat him as a heathen or a tax-collector.
Matthew 21:31
Which of the two did what his father wanted?" They said, "The second one." Jesus said to them, "I tell you, the tax-collectors and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you.
Luke 15:1
All the tax-collectors and irreligious people were crowding up to hear him.
Luke 18:13
But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, and said, 'O God, have mercy on a sinner like me!'
Luke 19:2
Now there was a man named Zaccheus, the principal tax-collector, a rich man,