47 And if ye be friendly to your brethren only, what singular thing do ye? do not even the [a]Publicans likewise?

48 Ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father which is in heaven, is perfect.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:47 They that were the toll masters, and had the oversight of tributes and customs: a kind of men that the Jews hated to death, both because they served the Romans in these offices, (whose yokeful bondage they could hardly away withall) and also because these toll masters are for the most part given to covetousness.

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