Judging Others (Luke 6:37–42; Romans 14:1–12)
2 UDB If you condemn other people, God will condemn you. To the same extent that you condemn others, you will be condemned. BSB BSB: For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 UDB None of you should be concerned about someone else's small faults! That would be like noticing a speck of straw in that person's eye. But you should be concerned about your own big faults because you do not notice a huge wooden plank in your own eye. BSB BSB: Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
4 UDB You should not say to other people about their small faults, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye!' while you still have a wooden plank in your own eye. BSB BSB: How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?
5 UDB If you do that, you are a hypocrite! You should first remove the plank out of your own eye before trying to get the speck out of someone else's eye. BSB BSB: You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
6 UDB "You do not give things that belong to God to dogs that would attack you. And you do not throw valuable pearls in front of hogs, because they would just walk on them. In the same way, do not tell wonderful things about God to people who you know will do evil things to you in return. BSB BSB: Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
Ask, Seek, Knock (Luke 11:5–13)
7 UDB "Keep asking God for what you need, and keep expecting him to give it to you. BSB BSB: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
8 UDB For everyone who asks God for something, and who expects God to give it to him, will receive it. BSB BSB: For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
9 UDB "If your son asks you for bread, no one among you would give him a stone, would he? BSB BSB: Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
10 UDB If your son asks you for a fish, no one among you would give him a snake, would he? BSB BSB: Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
11 UDB You know how to give good things to your children even though you are evil. So God, your Father who is in heaven, will even more certainly give good things to those who ask him. BSB BSB: So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
12 UDB "So in whatever way you want others to act toward you, that is the way you should act toward them because that is the meaning of God's law and of everything that the prophets wrote long ago. BSB BSB: In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
The Narrow Gate (Luke 13:22–30)
13 UDB "Going to live forever with God in heaven is difficult; it is like a difficult road that you should take. There is another road, one that most people take. That road is wide; they walk on until they reach a wide gate, but when they go through it, they will die. So I am telling you to take the difficult road and enter the narrow gate to live forever with God in heaven. BSB BSB: Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
A Tree and Its Fruit (Luke 6:43–45)
15 UDB "Watch out for people who come to you and say falsely that they are telling you what God has said. They are like wolves that have covered themselves with sheepskins to appear harmless but will attack you. BSB BSB: Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
17 UDB Here is another example: All good fruit trees produce good fruit, but all rotten trees produce worthless fruit. BSB BSB: Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18 UDB No good fruit tree produces worthless fruit, and no rotten tree produces good fruit. BSB BSB: A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
19 UDB Workers chop down and burn up all the trees that do not produce good fruit. BSB BSB: Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 UDB By seeing what plants produce, you know what kind of plants they are. Similarly, when you see what the people who come to you do, you will know if they truly produce good or not. BSB BSB: So then, by their fruit you will recognize them.
22 UDB On the day that God judges everyone, many people will say to me, 'Lord, we spoke God's message as your representatives! As your representatives we drove out demons from people! And as your representatives, many times we performed mighty deeds!' BSB BSB: Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
23 UDB Then I will publicly say to them, 'I have never admitted that you belonged to me. Go away from me, you who do what is evil!' BSB BSB: Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
The House on the Rock (Luke 6:46–49)
24 UDB "So then, anyone who hears what I say and does what I command will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. BSB BSB: Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
25 UDB Even though the rain came down and the river flooded and the winds blew and beat against that house, it did not fall down, because it had been built on solid rock. BSB BSB: The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.
26 UDB On the other hand, anyone who hears what I say but does not obey me will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. BSB BSB: But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
27 UDB When the rain fell and the river flooded and the winds blew and beat against that house, it crashed down and broke completely apart because it was built on sand. So you should obey what I have told you." BSB BSB: The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”
The Authority of Jesus 28 UDB When Jesus finished teaching all those things, the crowds who had heard him were amazed by how he taught. BSB BSB: When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at His teaching,
29 UDB He taught like a teacher who relies on what he himself knows. He did not teach like those who taught the Jewish laws, who repeated the different things that other men had taught. BSB BSB: because He taught as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.