34. And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thanks are to you? for sinners also lend to sinners, for to receive as much.
35. But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the unthankful, and to the evil.
36. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
37. Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven.
38. Give, and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.
39. And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? do they not both fall into the ditch?
40. The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master.
41. And why seest thou the mote in thy brother's eye: but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not?
42. Or how canst thou say to thy brother: Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye? Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of thy own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to take out the mote from thy brother's eye.
43. For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit; nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit.
44. For every tree is known by its fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns; nor from a bramble bush do they gather the grape.
45. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
46. And why call you me, Lord, Lord; and do not the things which I say?
47. Every one that cometh to me, and heareth my words, and doth them, I will shew you to whom he is like.
48. He is like to a man building a house, who digged deep, and laid the foundation upon a rock. And when a flood came, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and it could not shake it; for it was founded on a rock.
49. But he that heareth, and doth not, is like to a man building his house upon the earth without a foundation: against which the stream beat vehemently, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.