Luke 6:27-44

²⁷“Further, to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you;

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

²⁹To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold the tunic as well.

³⁰Give to everyone who asks of you; and from him who takes away your things, do not demand them back.

³¹Yes, like you want people to treat you, that is just how you must treat them.

³²Also, if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even ‘sinners’ love those who love them.

³³And if you do good to those doing good to you, what credit is that to you? Even ‘sinners’ do the same.

³⁴And if you lend to those from whom you expect to get it back, what credit is that to you? Even ‘sinners’ lend to ‘sinners’, to receive an equal value back.

³⁵“So, love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; because He is kind toward the ungrateful and wicked.

³⁶So be compassionate, even as your Father is compassionate.

³⁷“Do 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 it will be given to you: a good measure—pressed down and shaken together and running over—will they deposit in your lap. Because with the same measure that you use it will be measured back to you.”

³⁹Then He told them a parable: “Can a blind man guide a blind man? Will they not both fall into a ditch?

⁴⁰A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.

⁴¹Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank that is in your own eye?

⁴²Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother's eye.

⁴³“Now no good tree produces rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree produce good fruit

⁴⁴—each tree is known by its own fruit: people do not gather figs from thorn bushes, nor do they pick a bunch of grapes from a bramble.