Luke 6:32-49

32If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

33If you do what is good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.

34And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners to be repaid in full.

35But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High. For he is gracious to the ungrateful and evil.

36Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

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, shaken together, and running over — will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

39He also told them a parable: “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

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

41“Why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye, but don’t notice the beam of wood in your own eye?

42Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam of wood in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the beam of wood out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter in your brother’s eye.

43“A good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit; on the other hand, a bad tree doesn’t produce good fruit.

44For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush.

45A good person produces good out of the good stored up in his heart. An evil person produces evil out of the evil stored up in his heart, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

46“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things I say?

47I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them:

48He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the river crashed against that house and couldn’t shake it, because it was well built.

49But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The river crashed against it, and immediately it collapsed. And the destruction of that house was great.”