⁴⁷ If you are kind only to your friends,^[a] how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that.

³² “If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them!

²⁰ “But I warn you—unless your righteousness is better than the righteousness of the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

²⁰ Of course, you get no credit for being patient if you are beaten for doing wrong. But if you suffer for doing good and endure it patiently, God is pleased with you.

⁴ Don’t take any money with you, nor a traveler’s bag, nor an extra pair of sandals. And don’t stop to greet anyone on the road.

⁵ “Whenever you enter someone’s home, first say, ‘May God’s peace be on this house.’

¹² When you enter the home, give it your blessing.