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The Gospel of Luke 6

6 One Sabbath day, as Jesus and his disciples were walking through some grain fields, the disciples picked some heads of grain. They rubbed them in their hands to separate the grain from the husks. Then they ate the grain. 2 Some Pharisees were watching this. They said to them, “You should not be doing work like that! Our law forbids us to do work on the Sabbath day!” 3 Jesus replied to the Pharisees, “Consider what the Scriptures say about what David did when he and the men who were with him were hungry. 4 As you know, David entered the tabernacle and asked for some food. The priest gave him the bread that had been on display before God. David ate some, and he also gave some to the men who were with him, even though the law said they could not do that. Only priests could eat that bread.” 5 Jesus also said to them, “I, the Son of Man, have the authority to determine what is right for people to do on the Sabbath!”

6 On another Sabbath day Jesus went to the synagogue and taught the people. A man was there who could not move his right hand. 7 Some teachers of the Jewish laws and some Pharisees were there. They were watching Jesus closely. They wanted to see whether he would heal the man. If he did, then they would accuse him of disobeying their laws about not working on the Sabbath. 8 But Jesus knew what they were thinking. So he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come and stand here in front of everyone!” So the man got up and stood there. 9 Then Jesus said to them, “I want to ask you a question. Do the laws that God gave Moses command people to do good on the Sabbath, or to do harm? Do they command people to save a life on the Sabbath, or to destroy it?” 10 No one answered him, so he looked around at them all and then said to the man, “Stretch out your withered hand!” The man did that, and his hand became completely well again! 11 But the religious leaders were very angry, and they discussed with one another about what they could do to get rid of Jesus.

12 Around that time, Jesus went up into the hills to pray. He prayed to God all night there. 13 The next day he called all his disciples to come to him. From among them he chose 12 men and made them his Representatives. 14 These are their names: Simon, to whom Jesus gave the new name Peter; Andrew, Peter’s brother; James and his brother, John; Philip; Bartholomew; 15 Matthew, whose other name was Levi; Thomas; another man named James whose father was named Alphaeus; Simon the Zealot; 16 Judas, the son of a different man named James; and Judas Iscariot, who later betrayed Jesus.

17 Jesus came down from the hills with his disciples and stood on a level area. There was a great crowd of his disciples there. There was also a large group of people who had come from Jerusalem and from many other places in the region of Judea, and from the coastal areas near the cities of Tyre and Sidon. 18 They came to hear Jesus teach them and heal them from their diseases. He also healed those whom evil spirits had troubled. 19 Everyone in the crowd tried to touch him, because he was healing everyone by his power. 20 Then he looked at his disciples and said, “It is very good for you who are poor, because God is ruling you. 21 It is very good for you who are hungry now, because God will give you everything you need.

It is very good for you who are grieving now, because God will someday make you laugh with joy.

22 It is very good when other people hate you, when they reject you and insult you and say that you are bad because you follow me, the Son of Man. 23 When that happens, rejoice! Jump up and down because you are so happy! Keep in mind that God is going to give you a great reward in heaven! Do not forget that the ancestors of the people who are treating you this way did similar things to God’s prophets long ago.

24 But how sad it is for you who are rich. You have already received all the comfort you are going to get from your riches. 25 How sad it is for you who can stuff yourselves with food now. Later you will go hungry.

Woe to the ones who are laughing now. Later you will be very unhappy. 26 How sad it is for you when everyone says good things about you. In the same way, their ancestors used to say good things about people who falsely claimed to be God’s prophets.

27 But I say this to each of you who are listening to what I say: Love your enemies, not only your friends! Do good things for those who hate you! 28 Ask God to bless those who curse you! Pray for those who treat you badly! 29 If someone insults you by striking you on one of your cheeks, turn your face so that he can strike the other cheek also. If someone wants to take away your coat, let him also have your shirt. 30 Give something to everyone who asks you. If someone takes things that belong to you, do not make him return them. 31 In whatever way you want others to act toward you, that is the way that you should act toward them.

32 If you love only those who love you, do not expect God to reward you for doing that. Even sinners love those who love them. 33 Do not expect God to reward you because you do good things for people who do good things for you. After all, even sinners do that. 34 If you lend money or property only to those who will give it back to you, do not expect God to reward you for doing that. Even sinners lend to other sinners who will give everything back to them. 35 Instead, love your enemies! Do good things for them! Lend to them, and do not expect them to pay anything back! Then God will give you a great reward. And you will be children of God the Most High, since God is kind even to people who are unthankful and wicked. 36 So you should act mercifully toward other people, just as God, your Father, acts mercifully toward people.

37 Do not harshly criticize other people. Then God will not harshly criticize you. Do not condemn other people. Then God will not condemn you. Forgive others for the wrong things they have done to you. Then God will forgive you. 38 Give to others. Then God will give to you. It will be as if he is trying to give you as much grain as possible in a container you have. He will press the grain down. He will shake it together. He will keep filling the container until it overflows. So when you give to others, it should be as if you are using a big scoop, because God will use the same size scoop to give to you.”

39 He also gave his disciples this example: “A blind person should not try to lead another blind person down the road. If he did, they both would fall into the ditch on the side of the road! 40 A disciple is not greater than his teacher. But once the teacher has finished training him, he will become like his teacher.

41 None of you should be concerned about the small faults of another person. You should be concerned about your own serious faults. Otherwise, that would be like noticing a speck in the eye of that person while not noticing a huge wooden plank in your own eye. 42 You should not tell another believer, ‘Friend, let me help you correct your faults,’ when you have not dealt with your own faults yet. If you do that, you are a hypocrite! You should first stop committing your own sins. That will be like removing a large plank from your own eye. Then, as a result, you will have the spiritual insight you need to help others get rid of the smaller faults that are like little specks in their eyes.

43 Everyone knows that healthy trees do not produce bad fruit and unhealthy trees do not produce good fruit. 44 You can tell what a person is like inside by the things that they do. Then you know what to expect from them. You would not look for kindness or good advice from someone who does bad things. That would be like looking for figs on a thornbush or looking for grapes on a bramble vine. 45 Good people do good things because they think good things. Evil people do evil things because they think evil things. This is because people speak and act based on what they are thinking about.”

46 Jesus said to the people, “Why do you call me ‘Lord’ when you do not obey what I tell you to do? 47 Let me tell you what people are like who come to me, hear my teachings, and obey them. 48 Such people are like a person who dug deep into the ground to prepare to build his house. He made sure to build the foundation for the house on solid rock. Then there was a flood. A torrent of water was beating against that house. But it could not destroy it, because the person had built the house on a solid foundation. 49 But some people who hear my teachings do not obey them. They are like a person who built a house on top of the ground without digging a foundation first. When the floodwaters came, it collapsed immediately. The waters destroyed that house completely.”

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