Luke 6

¹Now it came to pass on a Sabbath that he was passing through the grainfields, and his disciples were plucking the heads of grain and eating them, rubbing them in their hands.

²But some of the Pharisees said to them: Why do you do what is not lawful on the Sabbaths?

³And Jesus answering said to them: Have you not even read this, what David did when he was hungry, he himself and those who were with him?

⁴how he entered into the house of God and took the loaves of presentation and ate and gave also to those with him, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?

⁵And he was saying to them that: Lord of the Sabbath is the Son of Man.

⁶Now it came to pass also on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and was teaching; and a man was there, and his right hand was withered.

⁷Now the scribes and the Pharisees were closely watching him to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find reason to accuse him.

⁸But he himself knew their reasonings, and he said to the man who had the withered hand: Arise and stand in the midst. And having arisen, he stood.

⁹Then Jesus said to them: I ask you whether it is lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?

¹⁰And having looked around at all of them, he said to him: Stretch out your hand. And he did so; and his hand was restored sound as the other.

¹¹But they themselves were filled with mindless fury, and were discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.

¹²Now it came to pass in those days that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he was spending the whole night in prayer to God.

¹³And when it became day, he called his disciples and having chosen from them twelve, whom he also named apostles:

¹⁴Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John and Philip and Bartholomew

¹⁵and Matthew and Thomas and James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the one being called Zealot

¹⁶and Judas son of James and Judas Iscariot, who also became a betrayer.

¹⁷And having descended with them, he stood on a level place, and a large crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon

¹⁸who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled by unclean spirits were being healed.

¹⁹And the whole crowd was seeking to touch him, because power was going out from him and was healing all.

²⁰And he himself, lifting up his eyes upon his disciples, was saying: Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

²¹Blessed are those who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are those who weep now, for you will laugh.

²²Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and cast out your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.

²³Rejoice in that day and leap for joy; for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for in the same way their ancestors were treating the prophets.

²⁴But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving in full your comfort.

²⁵Woe to you who are filled now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep.

²⁶Woe to you when all people speak well of you; for in the same way their ancestors were treating the false prophets.

²⁷But I say to you who are hearing: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

²⁸bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

²⁹To the one who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from the one who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either.

³⁰To everyone who asks you, give; and from the one who takes away what is yours, do not ask back.

³¹And just as you desire that people would do to you, you yourselves do likewise to them.

³²And if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

³³For even if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

³⁴And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners so that they may receive back the same amount.

³⁵But love your enemies and do good and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

³⁶Be merciful, therefore, just as your Father also is merciful.

³⁷And do not judge, and you will certainly not be judged. And do not condemn, and you will certainly not be condemned. Release, and you will be released.

³⁸Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down and shaken together and running over, they will put into your lap; for with the measure you measure it will be measured back to you.

³⁹He also spoke a parable to them: Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?

⁴⁰A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.

⁴¹Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but the beam that is in your own eye you do not notice?

⁴²Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the beam that is in your own eye? Hypocrite, first take out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

⁴³For there is no good tree that produces bad fruit, nor again a bad tree that produces good fruit.

⁴⁴For each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

⁴⁵The good man brings forth good out of the good treasury of his heart, and the evil man brings forth evil out of his evil treasury; for out of the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks.

⁴⁶Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?

⁴⁷Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you whom he is like.

⁴⁸He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation upon the rock. When a flood arose, the river burst against that house, but it was not able to shake it, because it had been well built.

⁴⁹But the one who heard and did not do is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against it, it collapsed at once, and the ruin of that house was great.