Luke 6:35-49

³⁵'But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

³⁶be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.

³⁷'And judge not, and ye may not be judged; condemn not, and ye may not be condemned; release, and ye shall be released.

³⁸'Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

³⁹And he spake a simile to them, 'Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?

⁴⁰A disciple is not above his teacher, but every one perfected shall be as his teacher.

⁴¹'And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye, and the beam that is in thine own eye dost not consider?

⁴²or how art thou able to say to thy brother, Brother, suffer, I may take out the mote that is in thine eye — thyself the beam in thine own eye not beholding? Hypocrite, take first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to take out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.

⁴³'For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making good fruit;

⁴⁴for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.

⁴⁵'The good man out of the good treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which is evil; for out of the abounding of the heart doth his mouth speak.

⁴⁶'And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

⁴⁷Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like;

⁴⁸he is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.

⁴⁹'And he who heard and did not, is like to a man having builded a house upon the earth, without a foundation, against which the stream brake forth, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house became great.'