Matthew 5:46
If you love the people who love you, what reward is there in that? Even tax collectors do that, do they not?
Treated in 6 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- Godliness ·
Love cites Matthew 5:46
…who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?” (Matthew 5:46, ESV) Wicked people love one another through natural affection, just as a tiger loves its…
- The Key Teachings of Jonathan Edwards ·
True Virtue cites MATTHEW 5:46
…if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? MATTHEW 5:46 Among the works Edwards wrote at Stockbridge and never saw published was a short, dense…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
II. The first objective ground of gracious affections, is the transcendently excellent and amiable nature of divine things as they are themselves; and not any conceived relation they bear to self, or self-interest cites Matt. 5:46
…even the publicans, who were some of the most carnal and profligate sort of men, Matt. 5:46. This is the very principle that is wrought upon by bribery, in unjust judges; and it is…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
Discourse 3 cites Matt. 5:46
…ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the Publicans the same?” (Matt. 5:46; ) — who pretend to no religion; whom ye yourselves acknowledge to be without God in the…
- Unspoken Sermons ·
Love Thine Enemy cites Matthew v. 43-48
…so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. — St Matthew v. 43-48. Is not this at length too much to expect? Will a man ever love his enemies? He may come…
- Portraits of Courage – Corrie ten Boom ·
Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites Matthew 5:43-48
…being shaved, and a letter of forgiveness written in June 1945. Scriptures to revisit Matthew 5:43-48; Romans 5:10; Romans 12:17-21; Ephesians 4:32. Reflection 1. Is there someone you need to…