Matthew 5:47
If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
World English Bible (Public Domain)
In context
Before · Matthew 5:45–46
45that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. 46For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
47If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
After · Matthew 5:48
48Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Notes and cross references in the WEB
- FootnoteNU reads “Gentiles” instead of “tax collectors”.