Luke 6:41-49 ▼

41 But why beholdest thou the mote which is in thy brother's eye, but observest not the beam which is in thine own eye?

42 Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, permit me to take off the mote which is on thine eye, not seeing thyself the beam in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite! cast out the beam which is in thine eye, and then shalt thou see distinctly to take off the mote which is in thy brother's eye.

43 For there is no good tree which produceth fruit of a bad quality; neither doth a tree of a bad sort produce good fruit.

44 Every tree is known by its own peculiar fruit. For men do not gather figs from off thorns, nor do they gather from the bramble a bunch of grapes.

45 A good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, produceth what is good; and a wicked man, from the evil treasure in his heart, produceth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

47 Every one who cometh to me, and heareth my words, and puts them in practice, I will shew you to whom he is like:

48 he is like to a man, building a house, who digged, and sunk deep, and laid the foundation on a rock; and when there was a flood, the river rushed violently against that house, and was not of force to shake it, for it was founded on a rock.

49 But he that heareth, and doth not practice, is like a man who built his house on the earth without a foundation; against which the river rushed violently, and immediately it fell; and the crash of the fall of that house was great.