Matthew 5:47
Good News Translation
And if you speak only to your friends, have you done anything out of the ordinary? Even the pagans do that!

New Revised Standard Version
And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

Contemporary English Version
If you greet only your friends, what's so great about this? Don't even unbelievers do that?

New American Bible
And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

salute.

Matthew 10:12 And when you come into the house, salute it, saying: Peace be to this house.

Luke 6:32 And if you love them that love you, what thanks are to you? For sinners also love those that love them.

Luke 10:4,5 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. . . .

what.

Matthew 5:20 For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

1 Peter 2:20 For what glory is it, if, committing sin and being buffeted for it, you endure? But if doing well you suffer patiently: this is thankworthy before God.

Context
Love Your Enemies
46For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this? 47And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this? 48Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:46
For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this?

Matthew 5:48
Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.

Colossians 4:14
Luke, the most dear physician, saluteth you: and Demas.

Colossians 4:15
Salute the brethren who are at Laodicea: and Nymphas and the church that is in his house.

Matthew 5:46
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