²²Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.

²³Be glad in that day and rejoice: for behold, your reward is great in heaven, For according to these things did their fathers to the prophets.

²⁴But woe to you that are rich: for you have your consolation.

²⁵Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh: for you shall mourn and weep.

²⁶Woe to you when men shall bless you: for according to these things did their fathers to the false prophets.

²⁷But I say to you that hear: Love your enemies. Do good to them that hate you.

²⁸Bless them that curse you and pray for them that calumniate you.

²⁹And to him that striketh thee on the one cheek, offer also the other. And him that taketh away from thee thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also.

³⁰Give to every one that asketh thee: and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not again.

³¹And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them in like manner.

³²And if you love them that love you, what thanks are to you? For sinners also love those that love them.

³³And if you do good to them who do good to you, what thanks are to you? For sinners also do this.

³⁴And 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.

³⁵But 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.

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

³⁷Judge not: and you shall not be judged. Condemn not: and you shall not be condemned. Forgive: and you shall be forgiven.

³⁸Give: 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.

³⁹And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? Do they not both fall into the ditch?

⁴⁰The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master.

⁴¹And why seest thou the mote in thy brother’s eye: but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not?

⁴²Or 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.

⁴³For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit: nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit.

⁴⁴For 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.

⁴⁵A 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.

⁴⁶And why call you me, Lord, Lord; and do not the things which I say?

⁴⁷Every one that cometh to me and heareth my words and doth them, I will shew you to whom he is like.

⁴⁸He 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.

⁴⁹But 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.

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