45 so that you may be[a] children of your Father in heaven. For he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.(A) 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what are you doing out of the ordinary?[b](B) Don’t even the Gentiles[c] do the same?

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Footnotes

  1. 5:45 Or may become, or may show yourselves to be
  2. 5:47 Or doing that is superior; lit doing more
  3. 5:47 Other mss read tax collectors

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