47If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?


In Context

44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?

47 If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?

48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Matthew 5:47 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:47And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more [than others?] do not even the publicans so?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:47And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:47And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:47And if ye should salute your brethren only, what do ye extraordinary? Do not also the Gentiles the same?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:47And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:47And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:47and if ye may salute your brethren only, what do ye abundant? do not also the tax-gatherers so?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:47And if you salute your brothers only, what do you more than others? do not even the publicans so?