6:27 “But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies, ¹  do good to those who hate you, 6:28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat ²  you. 6:29 To the person who strikes you on the cheek, ³  offer the other as well, ⁴  and from the person who takes away your coat, ⁵  do not withhold your tunic ⁶  either. ⁷  6:30 Give to everyone who asks you, ⁸  and do not ask for your possessions ⁹  back ¹⁰  from the person who takes them away. 6:31 Treat others ¹¹  in the same way that you would want them to treat you. ¹² 

6:32 “If ¹³  you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners ¹⁴  love those who love them. ¹⁵  6:33 And ¹⁶  if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even ¹⁷  sinners ¹⁸  do the same. 6:34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to be repaid, ¹⁹  what credit is that to you? Even sinners ²⁰  lend to sinners, so that they may be repaid in full. ²¹  6:35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. ²²  Then ²³  your reward will be great, and you will be sons ²⁴  of the Most High, ²⁵  because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people. ²⁶  6:36 Be merciful, ²⁷  just as your Father is merciful.

6:37 “Do ²⁸  not judge, ²⁹  and you will not be judged; ³⁰  do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; forgive, ³¹  and you will be forgiven. 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you: A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, ³²  will be poured ³³  into your lap. For the measure you use will be the measure you receive.” ³⁴ 

6:39 He also told them a parable: “Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? ³⁵  Won’t they both fall ³⁶  into a pit? 6:40 A disciple ³⁷  is not greater than ³⁸  his teacher, but everyone when fully trained will be like his teacher. 6:41 Why ³⁹  do you see the speck ⁴⁰  in your brother’s eye, but fail to see ⁴¹  the beam of wood ⁴²  in your own? 6:42 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while you yourself don’t see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

6:43 “For ⁴³  no good tree bears bad ⁴⁴  fruit, nor again ⁴⁵  does a bad tree bear good fruit, 6:44 for each tree is known ⁴⁶  by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered ⁴⁷  from thorns, nor are grapes picked ⁴⁸  from brambles. ⁴⁹  6:45 The good person out of the good treasury of his ⁵⁰  heart ⁵¹  produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury ⁵²  produces evil, for his mouth speaks ⁵³  from what fills ⁵⁴  his heart.

6:46 “Why ⁵⁵  do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ ⁵⁶  and don’t do what I tell you? ⁵⁷ 

6:47 “Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice ⁵⁸  – I will show you what he is like: 6:48 He is like a man ⁵⁹  building a house, who dug down deep, ⁶⁰  and laid the foundation on bedrock. When ⁶¹  a flood came, the river ⁶²  burst against that house but ⁶³  could not shake it, because it had been well built. ⁶⁴  6:49 But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice ⁶⁵  is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When ⁶⁶  the river burst against that house, ⁶⁷  it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!” ⁶⁸