²²Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn 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 their fathers used to do the same things to the prophets.

The Sermon on the Plain: Woes

²⁴“But woe to you who are rich,

because you have received your comfort.

²⁵Woe to you who are satisfied now,

because you will be hungry.

Woe, you who laugh now,

because you will mourn and weep.

²⁶Woe whenever all people speak well of you,

for their fathers used to do the same things to the false prophets.

The Sermon on the Plain: Love for Enemies

²⁷“But to you who are listening I say: 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 the other also, and from the one who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic also. ³⁰Give to everyone who asks you, and from the one who takes away your things, do not ask for them back.^* ³¹And just as you want people to do^b to you, do the same^c to them.

³²“And if you love those who love you, what kind of credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them! ³³And if^d you do good to those who do good to you, what kind of credit is that to you? Even the sinners do the same! ³⁴And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive back, what kind of credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so that they may get back an equal amount! ³⁵But love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting back nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. ³⁶Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful!^e

The Sermon on the Plain: On Judging Others

³⁷“And do not judge, and you will never be judged. And do not condemn, and you will never be condemned. Pardon, and you will be pardoned. ³⁸Give, and it will be given to you, a good measure—pressed down, shaken, overflowing—they will pour out into your lap. For with the measure by which you measure out, it will be measured out to you in return.”

³⁹And he also told them a parable: “Surely a blind person cannot lead the blind, can he?^* Will they not both fall into a pit? ⁴⁰A disciple is not superior to his^* teacher, but everyone, when he^* is fully trained, will be like his teacher. ⁴¹And why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the beam of wood that is in your own eye? ⁴²How are you able to say to your brother, “Brother, allow me to remove the speck that is in your eye,” while^* you yourself do not see the beam of wood in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye!

The Sermon on the Plain: Trees and Their Fruit

⁴³“For there is no good tree that produces bad fruit, nor on the other hand a bad tree that produces good fruit, ⁴⁴for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorn plants, nor are grapes harvested from thorn bushes. ⁴⁵The good person out of the good treasury of his heart brings forth good, and the evil person out of his^* evil treasury^* brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

⁴⁶“And why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I tell you?^*

The Sermon on the Plain: Two Houses and Two Foundations

⁴⁷“Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and does them—I will show you what he is like: ⁴⁸he is like a man building a house, who dug and went down deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when^* a flood came, the river burst against that house and was not able to shake it, because it had been built well. ⁴⁹But the one who hears my words^* and does not do them^* is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation, which the river burst against, and immediately it collapsed—and the collapse of that house was great!”

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Footnotes

*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“lifted up”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
bLiterally “would do”
cLiterally “likewise”
dSome manuscripts have “For even if”
eSome manuscripts have “also is merciful”
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “can he”
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“is fully trained”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“see”) which is understood as temporal
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*The word “treasury” here is an understood repetition from earlier in the verse
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“came”)
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation