29. If anyone slaps you on one cheek, let him slap the other cheek too. If someone takes your coat, do not stop him from taking your shirt.
30. Give to everyone who asks you. When a person takes something that is yours, don’t ask for it back.
31. Do for other people what you want them to do for you.
32. If you love only those who love you, should you get some special praise for doing that? No! Even sinners love the people who love them!
33. If you do good only to those who do good to you, should you get some special praise for doing that? No! Even sinners do that!
34. If you lend things to people, always hoping to get something back, should you get some special praise for that? No! Even sinners lend to other sinners so that they can get back the same amount!
35. So love your enemies. Do good to them, and lend to them without hoping to get anything back. If you do these things, you will have a great reward. You will be sons of the Most High God. Yes, because God is kind even to people who are ungrateful and full of sin.
36. Show mercy just as your father shows mercy.
37. “Don’t judge other people, and you will not be judged. Don’t accuse others of being guilty, and you will not be accused of being guilty. Forgive other people, and you will be forgiven.
38. Give, and you will receive. You will be given much. It will be poured into your hands—more than you can hold. You will be given so much that it will spill into your lap. The way you give to others is the way God will give to you.”
39. Jesus told them this story: “Can a blind man lead another blind man? No! Both of them will fall into a ditch.
40. A student is not better than his teacher. But when the student has fully learned all that he has been taught, then he will be like his teacher.
41. “Why do you notice the little piece of dust that is in your brother’s eye, but you don’t see the big piece of wood that is in your own eye?
42. You say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take that little piece of dust out of your eye.’ Why do you say this? You cannot see that big piece of wood in your own eye! You are a hypocrite! First, take the piece of wood out of your own eye. Then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother’s eye.
43. “A good tree does not produce bad fruit. Also, a bad tree does not produce good fruit.
44. Each tree is known by its fruit. People don’t gather figs from thornbushes. And they don’t get grapes from bushes.
45. A good person has good things saved up in his heart. And so he brings good things out of his heart. But an evil person has evil things saved up in his heart. So he brings out bad things. A person speaks the things that are in his heart.
46. “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?