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.”
39. And he told them a parable, “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit?
40. No disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher.
41. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own?
42. How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,’ when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother’s eye.
43. “A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit.
44. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles.
45. A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
46. “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I command?
47. I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, listens to my words, and acts on them.
48. That one is like a person building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when the flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it because it had been well built.