34. And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners to be repaid in full.
35. But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is gracious to the ungrateful and evil.
36. Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
37. “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
38. Give, and it will be given to you; a good measure — pressed down, shaken together, and running over — will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”
39. He also told them a parable: “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?
40. A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
41. “Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but don’t notice the log in your own eye?
42. Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck in your brother’s eye.
43. “A good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit; on the other hand, a bad tree doesn’t produce good fruit.
44. For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush.