Verse 46

If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?

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  • Luke 6:32-35 : 32 If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. 33 If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same. 34 If you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. 35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend without expecting anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
  • Luke 15:1 : 1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to Him.
  • Luke 18:13 : 13 'But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven but beat his chest and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
  • Luke 19:2 : 2 And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was wealthy.
  • Luke 19:7 : 7 But when they saw this, everyone began to complain, saying, "He has gone to be a guest with a sinful man."
  • 1 Pet 2:20-23 : 20 What credit is it if you sin and are beaten for it, and you endure? But if you do good and suffer for it, and you endure, this is commendable before God. 21 To this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example to follow in His footsteps. 22 He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth. 23 When He was reviled, He did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but entrusted Himself to the One who judges justly.
  • Matt 6:1 : 1 Be careful not to practice your acts of charity before others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
  • Matt 9:10-11 : 10 While Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, 'Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?'
  • Matt 11:19 : 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her actions.
  • Matt 18:17 : 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
  • Matt 21:31-32 : 31 Which of the two did the will of his father? They said, 'The first.' Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.' 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him. And even when you saw it, you did not later change your minds and believe him.