22. Blessed are you when people hate you,and when they exclude and insult you,and denounce your name as evilon account of the Son of Man.
23. Rejoice and leap for joy on that day! Behold, your reward will be great in heaven. For their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way.
24. But woe to you who are rich,for you have received your consolation.
25. But woe to you who are filled now,for you will be hungry.Woe to you who laugh now,for you will grieve and weep.
26. Woe to you when all speak well of you,for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way.
27. “But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
28. bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
29. To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic.
30. Give to everyone who asks of you, and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back.
31. Do to others as you would have them do to you.
32. For if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
33. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.
34. If you lend money to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit [is] that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, and get back the same amount.
35. But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
36. Be merciful, just as [also] your Father is merciful.
37. “Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.
38. Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.”