Matthew 5:46

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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 se...
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...
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....
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 of...
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 e...
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 h...
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 we...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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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 rem...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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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. C...
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 Lo...
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...
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 rew...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount. 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love...
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 slo...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the civil servants the same? And if you salute your brethren only, what do y...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Sermon Bible Commentary

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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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?
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And there is also the moral distinction;
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wells of Living Water Commentary

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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...

⁴⁶ For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

Related Commentaries of Matthew 5:46

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Matthew 5:46