Luke 6:35-49

³⁵But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.

³⁶Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.

³⁷Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged: do not give punishment to others, and you will not get punishment yourselves: make others free, and you will be made free:

³⁸Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, crushed down, full and running over, they will give to you. For in the same measure as you give, it will be given to you again.

³⁹And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?

⁴⁰The disciple is not greater than his master, but everyone whose learning is complete will be like his master.

⁴¹And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?

⁴²How will you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the grain of dust out of your eye, when you yourself do not see the bit of wood in your eye? O false one! first take the wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother's eye.

⁴³For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives good fruit.

⁴⁴For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

⁴⁵The good man, out of the good store of his heart, gives good things; and the evil man, out of his evil store, gives evil: for out of the full store of the heart come the words of the mouth.

⁴⁶Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

⁴⁷Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:

⁴⁸He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.

⁴⁹But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.