Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For if ye love them loving you, what reward. have you? do not also the tax collectors 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?
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?
Youngs Literal Translation
'For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers 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 So that ye might be sons of your Father, which in the heavens: for he makes his sun rise upon evil and good, and rains on the just and unjust. 46 For if ye love them loving you, what reward. have you? do not also the tax collectors the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye above ordinary? and do not the tax collectors the same?
Cross References
Luke 6:32-35
And if ye love them loving you, what grace is to you? for also the sinful would love those loving them.
Matthew 6:1
Attend ye not to do your justice before men, to be seen to them; and if otherwise ye have no reward from your Father which in the heavens.
Matthew 9:10-11
And it was he sitting at table in the house, and behold, many tax collectors and sinful, having come, sat at table with Jesus and his disciples.
Matthew 11:19
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man a glutton, and wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful; and wisdom has been justified from her children.
Matthew 18:17
And if he refuse hearing them, speak to the church: and if he refuse hearing the church, let him be to thee as of the nations and a publican.
Matthew 21:31-32
Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, that publicans and harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
Luke 15:1
And all publicans and sinful were drawing near him to hear him.
Luke 18:13
And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful.
Luke 19:2
And, behold, a man, called Zaccheus by name, and he was chief of the publicans, and he was rich.
Luke 19:7
And all they having seen, murmured, saying, That he entered in to rest with a sinful man.
1 Peter 2:20-23
For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God.