Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: Luke | Page 9

because you already have your consolation! 006:025 "Alas for you who now have plenty to eat, because you will be hungry! "Alas for you who laugh now, because you will mourn and weep aloud! 006:026 "Alas for you when men shall all have spoken well of you; for that is just the way their forefathers behaved to the false Prophets! 006:027 "But to you who are listening to me I say, Love your enemies; seek the welfare of those who hate you; 006:028 bless those who curse you; pray for those who revile you. 006:029 To him who gives you a blow on one side of the face offer the other side also; and to him who is robbing you of your outer garment refuse not the under one also. 006:030 To every one who asks, give; and from him who takes away your property, do not demand it back. 006:031 And behave to your fellow men just as you would have them behave to you. 006:032 "If you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? Why, even bad men love those who love them. 006:033 And if you are kind to those who are kind to you, what credit is it to you? Even bad men act thus. 006:034 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is it to you? Even bad men lend to their fellows so as to receive back an equal amount. 006:035 Nevertheless love your enemies, be beneficent; and lend without hoping for any repayment. Then your recompense shall be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. 006:036 Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate. 006:037 "Judge not, and you shall not be judged; condemn not, and you shall not be condemned; pardon, and you shall be pardoned; 006:038 give, and gifts shall be bestowed on you. Full measure, pressed, shaken down, and running over, shall they pour into your laps; for with the same measure that you use they shall measure to you in return." 006:039 He also spoke to them in figurative language. "Can a blind man lead a blind man?" He asked; "would not both fall into the ditch? 006:040 There is no disciple who is superior to his teacher; but every one whose instruction is complete will be like his teacher. 006:041 "And why look at the splinter in your brother's eye instead of giving careful attention to the beam in your own? 006:042 How can you say to your brother, `Brother, let me take that splinter out of your eye,' when all the while you yourself do not see the beam in your own eye? Vain pretender! take the beam out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother's eye. 006:043 "There is no good tree that yields unsound fruit, nor again any unsound tree that yields good fruit. 006:044 Every tree is known by its own fruit. It is not from thorns that men gather figs, nor from the bramble that they can get a bunch of grapes. 006:045 A good man from the good stored up in his heart brings out what is good; and an evil man from the evil stored up brings out what is evil; for from the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks. 006:046 "And why do you all call me `Master, Master' and yet not do what I tell you? 006:047 Every one who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them in practice, I will show you whom he is like. 006:048 He is like a man building a house, who digs and goes deep, and lays the foundation on the rock; and when a flood comes, the torrent bursts upon that house, but is unable to shake it, because it is securely built. 006:049 But he who has heard and not practised is like a man who has built a house upon the soft soil without a foundation, against which the torrent bursts, and immediately it collapses, and terrible is the wreck and ruin of that house." 007:001 After He had finished teaching all these things in the hearing of the people, He went into Capernaum. 007:002 Here the servant of a certain Captain, a man dear to his master, was ill and at the point of death; 007:003 and the Captain, hearing about Jesus, sent to Him some of the Jewish Elders, begging Him to come and restore his servant to health. 007:004 And they, when they came to Jesus, earnestly entreated Him, pleading, "He deserves to have this favour granted him, 007:005 for he loves our nation, and at his