Matthew 5:46 Cross References - ISV

⁴⁶ If you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don’t they?

¹ Teaching about Giving to the Poor “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people in order to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

¹⁰ While he was having dinner at Matthew’s home, many tax collectors and sinners arrived and began eating with Jesus and his disciples. ¹¹ The Pharisees saw this and asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

¹⁹ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Absolved from every act of sin, is wisdom by her kith and kin.”

¹⁷ If, however, he ignores them, tell it to the congregation. If he also ignores the congregation, regard him as an unbeliever and a tax collector.

³¹ Which of the two did the father’s will?”
They answered, “The first one.”
Jesus told them, “I tell all of you with certainty, tax collectors and prostitutes will get into God’s kingdom ahead of you! ³² John came to you living a righteous life, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. But even when you saw that, you didn’t change your minds at last and believe him.”

³² “If you love those who love you, what thanks do you deserve? Why, even sinners love those who love them. ³³ If you do good to those who do good to you, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners do that. ³⁴ If you lend to those from whom you expect to get something back, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back what they lend. ³⁵ Rather, love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind even to ungrateful and evil people.

¹ The Parable about the Faithful Shepherd
Now all the tax collectors and sinners kept coming to listen to Jesus.

¹³ “But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even look up to heaven. Instead, he continued to beat his chest and said, ‘O God, be merciful to me, the sinner that I am!’

² a man named Zacchaeus appeared. He was a leading tax collector, and a rich one at that!

⁷ But all the people who saw this began to complain: “Jesus is going to be the guest of a notorious sinner!”

²⁰ What good does it do if, when you sin, you patiently receive punishment for it? But if you suffer for doing good and receive it patiently, you have God’s approval. ²¹ This is, in fact, what you were called to do, because: The Messiah also suffered for you and left an example for you to follow in his steps. ²² “He never sinned, and he never told a lie.” ²³ When he was insulted, he did not retaliate. When he suffered, he did not threaten. It was his habit to commit the matter to the one who judges fairly.