Luke 6:12-49 ▼

12 And it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and He was spending the night in prayer to God.

13 And when it became day, He summoned His disciples, also having chosen out from them twelve, whom He also named apostles:

14 Simon, whom He also named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James and John, and Philip and Bartholomew,

15 and Matthew and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zealot,

16 and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a betrayer.

17 And having come down with them, He stood on a level place, and a great crowd of His disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon,

18 who came to hear Him and to be healed from their diseases. And those troubled from unclean spirits were healed.

19 And all the crowd was seeking to touch Him, because power was going out from Him and was healing all.

20 And He, having lifted up His eyes to His disciples, was saying: “Blessed are the poor, because yours? is the kingdom of God.

21 Blessed are those hungering now, because you? will be filled. Blessed are those weeping now, because you? will laugh.

22 Blessed are you? when men may hate you?, and when they may exclude you? and may reproach you and may cast out your? name as evil, on account of the Son of Man.

23 Rejoice in that day and leap, for behold, your? reward is great in heaven. For according to the same their fathers were doing to the prophets.

24 But woe to you? who are rich, because you? have your? comfort in full.

25 Woe to you? who have been filled now, because you? will hunger. Woe to those laughing now, because you? will mourn and weep.

26 Woe when all men may speak well of you?, for according to the same their fathers were doing to the false prophets.

27 But to you? who are hearing I say: Love your? enemies, do good to those hating you?,

28 bless those cursing you?, pray for those mistreating you?.

29 To the one striking you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from the one taking away your cloak, do not withhold also your tunic.

30 To everyone asking you, give, and from the one taking away what is yours?, do not demand it back.

31 And just as you? want that men may do to you?, do to them likewise.

32 And if you? love those loving you?, what grace is it to you?? For even the sinners love those loving them.

33 For even if you? do good to those doing good to you?, what grace is it to you?? Even the sinners do the same.

34 And if you? lend to those from whom you? expect to receive back, what grace is it to you?? Even sinners lend to sinners, that they might receive back the equivalent.

35 But 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 to the ungrateful and evil.

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

37 And do not judge, and you? shall not be judged; and do not condemn, and you? shall not be condemned; release, and you? will be released.

38 Give, and it will be given to you?. A good measure, pressed down, shaken, running over, they will give into your? bosom. For with what measure you? measure, it will be measured back to you?.”

39 And He also spoke a parable to them: “Is a blind man able to guide a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?

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

41 And why do you look at the splinter that is in the eye of your brother, but not notice the beam that is in your own eye?

42 How are you able to say to your brother, ‘Brother, permit that I might cast out the splinter that is in your eye,’ yourself not seeing the beam in your eye? Hypocrite! First cast out the beam from your eye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the splinter that is in the eye of your brother.

43 For there is no good tree producing rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree producing good fruit.

44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.

45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good, and the evil out of the evil brings forth what is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

46 And why do you? call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I say?

47 Everyone who is coming to Me and hearing My words and doing them, I will show you? whom he is like.

48 He is like a man building a house, who dug and deepened and laid a foundation on the rock. And a flood having come, the river burst upon that house, and it was not able to shake it, because it was well built.

49 But the one having heard and not having done is like a man having built a house on the ground without a foundation, on which the river burst, and immediately it fell—and the ruin of that house was great!”