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36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.| 37 |Stop judging, and you'll never be judged. Stop condemning, and you'll never be condemned. Forgive, and you'll be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will be given to you. A large quantity, pressed together, shaken down, and running over will be put into your lap, because you'll be evaluated by the same standard with which you evaluate others.| 39 He also told them a parable: |One blind person can't lead another blind person, can he? Both will fall into a ditch, won't they? 40 A disciple is not better than his teacher. But everyone who is fully-trained will be like his teacher. 41 |Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? 42 How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you don't see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you'll see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye.| 43 |A good tree doesn't produce rotten fruit, and a rotten tree doesn't produce good fruit, 44 because every tree is known by its own fruit. People don't gather figs from thorny plants or pick grapes from a thorn bush. 45 A good person produces good from the good treasure of his heart, and an evil person produces evil from an evil treasure, because the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.| 46 |Why do you keep calling me 'Lord, Lord,' but don't do what I tell you? 47 I will show you what everyone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them. 48 They are like a person building a house, who dug a deep hole to lay the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the floodwaters pushed against that house but couldn't shake it, because it had been founded on the rock. 49 But the person who hears what I say but doesn't act on it is like someone who built a house on the ground without any foundation. When the floodwaters pushed against it, that house quickly collapsed, and the resulting destruction of that house was extensive.| Luke 6:36-49, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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