Luke 6:36-49 ▼

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

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

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

39 And He spoke an allegory to them, “Is blind able to lead blind? Will they not both fall into a pit?

40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone perfected will be as his teacher.

41 And why do you behold the speck that is in your brother’s eye, and do not consider the beam that [is] in your own eye?

42 Or how are you able to say to your brother, Brother, permit, I may take out the speck that [is] in your eye—yourself not beholding the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that [is] in your brother’s eye.

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

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

45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which [is] good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which [is] evil; for out of the abounding of the heart his mouth speaks.

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

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

48 he is like to a man building a house, who dug and deepened, and laid a foundation on 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 on the rock.

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