Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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 to prove that you are sons of your Father in heaven, for He makes His sun rise on bad as well as good people, and makes the rain come down on doers of right and of wrong alike. 46 For if you practice loving only those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax-collectors practice that? 47 And if you say 'Good morning' to your brothers only, what more than others are you doing?
Cross References
Luke 6:32-35
Now if you practice loving only those who love you, what credit do you get for that? Why, even notorious sinners practice loving those who love them.
Matthew 6:1
"Take care not to do your good deeds in public, to attract the attention of people; if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.
Matthew 9:10-11
While He was at table in the house many tax-collectors and notorious sinners came in and took their seats at table with Jesus and His disciples.
Matthew 11:19
The Son of Man came eating and drinking with others, and they say, 'Just look at Him! A glutton and a wine-drinker, a chum of tax-collectors and notorious sinners!' And yet wisdom is vindicated by her doings!"
Matthew 18:17
And if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a heathen and as a tax-collector.
Matthew 21:31-32
Which of the two did what his father wanted?" They answered, "The second one." Jesus said to them, "I solemnly say to you, the tax-collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of heaven ahead of you.
Luke 15:1
Now all the tax-collectors and notorious sinners were crowding around Him to listen to Him.
Luke 18:13
But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but continued to beat his breast, and say, 'O God, have mercy on me, a sinner!'
Luke 19:2
Here there was a man named Zaccheus, who was tax-commissioner of the district, and he was a rich man too.
Luke 19:7
And when they all saw it, they began to grumble and say, "He has gone in to lodge with a notorious sinner!"
1 Peter 2:20-23
For what credit is it to bear it patiently, if you do wrong and are beaten for it? But if you do right and patiently suffer for it, it is pleasing in the sight of God.