Matthew 5:46
“For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
For if ye love them which love you,.... That is, if ye only love such that love you; for that such who love should be…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
What reward have ye? - The word “reward” seems to be used in the sense of “deserving of praise.” If you only love those…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Matthew 5:43-48
We have here, lastly, an exposition of that great fundamental law of the second table, Thou shalt love thy neighbour,…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
publicans taxgatherers; not collectors of a regular tax fixed by government as with us, but men who farmed or contracted…
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