Matthew 5:46 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? ”

Matthew 5:46 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What reward have ye? - The word “reward” seems to be used in the sense of “deserving of praise.” If you only love those that love you, you are selfish; it is not genuine love for the “character,”...
Matthew 5:46 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Loving One's Neighbour ( cf. Luke 6:27 f., Matthew 5:32-36 ).Thou shalt love thy neighbour ( i.e. fellow Israelite) is the precept of the Law ( Leviticus 19:18 ); and hate thine enemy is a Rab...
Matthew 5:46 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

what reward, &c. The Lord varies the wording of this when repeating it later in Luke 6:35 . not. Greek. ouchi. . strengthened form of ou. App-105. Publicans . tax-gatherers. Hence, ext...
Matthew 5:46 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

46. Do not even the publicans the same? In the same sense, Luke calls them sinners, that is, wicked and unprincipled men. Not that the office is condemned in itself; for the publicans...
Matthew 5:46 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1309 LOVE TO ENEMIES ENJOINED Matthew 5:43-48 . Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless...
Matthew 5:46 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? For if ye love them which love you - He who loves only his friends, does nothing for God's sake. He who lo...
Matthew 5:46 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The publicans— These were the Roman tax-gatherers, some of whom were Jews: these were more extremely odious to their countrymen than those who were heathens. The other Jews would have no communic...
Matthew 5:46 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? х t...
Matthew 5:46 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sermon on the Mount John 5:1 to John 7:29 . The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20 . This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke ( Luke 6:20 ), that it is best to regard t...
Matthew 5:46 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The publicans. — An account of the “publicans” of our Lord’s time will find a more fitting place in the Notes on Matthew 9:9 . Here, it may be remarked that our Lord puts Himself, as it were, on t...
Matthew 5:46 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...
Matthew 5:46 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Brotherly Relationship Matthew 5:38-48 In mentioning the second mile, our Lord refers to a well-known Eastern custom of forwarding messages by relays of forced labor. We leave our homes on a gi...
Matthew 5:46 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggesti...
Matthew 5:46 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Was there ever such a refinement of the most perfect law of the LORD as is here drawn? And where shall we look for the fulfilment of it but in the Lord JESUS himself? He indeed, and He only, observed...
Matthew 5:46 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 loved again, is both natural and just: our Lord's meaning is not, that ye ought...
Matthew 5:46 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? Ver. 46. For if ye love them that love you, what reward have you? ] The Greek and Latin word (say the...
Matthew 5:46 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him w...
Matthew 5:46 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount. 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I s...
Matthew 5:46 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on " Matthew 5:47 " .
Matthew 5:46 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Disciples Are To Love Even Their Enemies And Are To Seek To Be Perfect Even As Their Father in Heaven Is Perfect (5:43-48). Jesus has been slowly building up to this final revelation of the lo...
Matthew 5:46 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT The aim and contents of the “ Sermon .”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and...
Matthew 5:46 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:43-48 I. Our Lord does not say here that all men are to be equally dear to us, or equally esteemed by us. He does not substitute a vague principle of universal philanthropy in the room o...
Matthew 5:46 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 5:17 . Think not that I am came to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. The life, work, and words of Christ are not an emendation of the Old Testame...
Matthew 5:46 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:1 . Seeing the multitudes, assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upo...
Matthew 5:46 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 5:1 And seeing the multitudes ; i.e. those spoken of in Matthew 4:25 —the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. He went up . From the lower groun...
Matthew 5:46 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same?
Matthew 5:46 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:20-23 ; Luke 15:1 ; Luke 18:13 ; Luke 19:2 ; Luke 19:7 ; Luke 6:32-35 ; Matthew 11:19 ; Matthew 18:17 ; Matthew 21:31 ; Matthew 21:32 ; Matthew 6:1 ; Matthew 9:10 ; Matthew 9:1...
Matthew 5:46 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) Matthew 5:43-48 ; Matthew 6:1-15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. A FOURFOLD COMMAND 1. "Love your enemies." The whole world loves those who love them. That is o...
Matthew 5:46 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The publicans — were officers of the revenue, farmers, or receivers of the public money: men employed by the Romans to gather the taxes and customs, which they exacted of the nations they had conqu...

Matthew 5:46 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:46 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:46 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 5:46 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:46 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Matthew 5:46 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:46 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:46 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:46 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:46 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 5:46 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 5:46 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 5:46 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:46 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Matthew 5:46 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 5:46 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 5:46 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:46 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:46 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:46 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:46 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 5:46 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:46 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 5:46 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:46 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 5:46 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 5:46 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:46 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Matthew 5:46 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes