Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, LukeWeymouth, Richard Francis
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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Luke
Weymouth, Richard Francis
Bible. Luke
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.
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