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³⁹He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won`t they both fall into a pit?

⁴⁰A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

⁴¹Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother`s eye, but don`t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

⁴²Or how can you tell your brother, `Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,` when you yourself don`t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother`s eye.

⁴³For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.

⁴⁴For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don`t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

⁴⁵The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

⁴⁶Why do you call me, `Lord, Lord,` and don`t do the things which I say?

⁴⁷Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

⁴⁸He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

⁴⁹But he who hears, and doesn`t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."