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Matthew 5:46

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

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  1. Matthew 5:44

    But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

  2. Matthew 5:45

    That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

  3. Matthew 5:47

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

  4. Matthew 5:48

    Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.