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

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

salute		Mat 10:12; Luk 6:32; Luk 10:4,5
what		Mat 5:20; 1Pe 2:20

Correlating Passages

salute

	Mat 10:12	And when ye come into an house, salute it.
	Luk 6:32	For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
	Luk 10:4	Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
	Luk 10:5	And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace [be] to this house.

what

	Mat 5:20	For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed [the righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
	1Pe 2:20	For what glory [is it], if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this [is] acceptable with God.

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Scott, Thomas. "Matthew 5:47," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Mat/5/47.html>.

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