Luke 6:2-32

²But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing something that is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

³Answering them, Jesus said, “Have you not even read what David did when he was hungry, he and the men who were with him?

⁴He went into the house of God, and took the bread of the presence and ate some of it, and also gave some to the men who were with him to eat, even though it was only lawful for the priests to eat it.”

⁵Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

⁶It happened on another Sabbath that he went into the synagogue and taught the people there. A man was there whose right hand was withered.

⁷The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him closely to see whether he would heal someone on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse him.

⁸But he knew what they were thinking and he said to the man whose hand was withered, “Get up, and stand here in the middle of everyone.” So the man got up and stood there.

⁹Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save a life or to destroy it?”

¹⁰Then he looked around at them all and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was restored.

¹¹But they were filled with anger and they talked to each other about what they might do to Jesus.

¹²It happened in those days that he went out to the mountain to pray. He continued all night in prayer to God.

¹³When it was day, he called his disciples to him, and he chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles.

¹⁴The names of the apostles were Simon (whom he also named Peter) and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,

¹⁵Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot,

¹⁶Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

¹⁷Then Jesus came down the mountain with them and stood on a level place with a large crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.

¹⁸They had come to listen to him and to be healed of their diseases. People who were troubled with unclean spirits were also healed.

¹⁹Everyone in the crowd kept trying to touch him because power to heal was coming out from him, and he healed them all.

²⁰Then he looked at his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

²¹Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

²²Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.

²³Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because you will surely have a great reward in heaven, for their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way.

²⁴But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.

²⁵Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry later. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep later.

²⁶Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.

²⁷But I say to you who are listening, love your enemies and do good to those who hate you.

²⁸Bless those who curse you and pray for those who mistreat you.

²⁹To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer him also the other. If someone takes away your coat, do not withhold your tunic either.

³⁰Give to everyone who asks you. If someone takes away something that belongs to you, do not ask him to give it back to you.

³¹As you want people to do to you, you should do the same to them.

³²If you only love people who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.