Luke 6:27-44

²⁷But to you who hear I say — love your enemies, show kindness to those who hate you,

²⁸bless those who curse you, pray for those who insult you.

²⁹When someone gives one of you a blow on the cheek, offer the other cheek as well; and, when anyone takes away your cloak, do not keep back your coat either.

³⁰Give to everyone who asks of you; and, when anyone takes away what is yours, do not demand its return.

³¹Do to others as you wish them to do to you.

³²If you love only those who love you, what thanks will be due to you? Why, even the outcast love those who love them!

³³For, if you show kindness only to those who show kindness to you, what thanks will be due to you? Even the outcast do that!

³⁴If you lend only to those from whom you expect to get something, what thanks will be due to you? Even the outcast lend to the outcast in the hope of getting as much in return!

³⁵But love your enemies, and show them kindness, and lend to them, never despairing. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the thankless and the bad.

³⁶Learn to be merciful — even as your Father is merciful.

³⁷Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

³⁸Give, and others will give to you. A generous measure, pressed and shaken down, and running over, will they pour into your lap; For The standard you use will be the standard used for you.”

³⁹Then, speaking in parables, Jesus said, “Can one blind person guide another? Will they not both fall into a ditch?

⁴⁰A student is not above their teacher; yet every finished student will be like their teacher.

⁴¹And why do you look at the speck of sawdust in someone's eye, while you pay no attention at all to the plank of wood in your own?

⁴²How can you say to your friend ‘Friend, let me take out the speck in your eye,’ while you yourself do not see the plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take out the plank from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the speck in your friend's.

⁴³There is no such thing as a good tree bearing worthless fruit, or, on the other hand, a worthless tree bearing good fruit.

⁴⁴For every tree is known by its own fruit. People do not gather figs off thorn bushes, nor pick a bunch of grapes off a bramble.