42 You say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take that little piece of dust out of your eye.’ Why do you say this? You cannot see that big piece of wood in your own eye! You are a hypocrite! First, take the piece of wood out of your own eye. Then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother’s eye.
43 “A good tree does not produce bad fruit. Also, a bad tree does not produce good fruit.
44 Each tree is known by its fruit. People don’t gather figs from thornbushes. And they don’t get grapes from bushes.
45 A good person has good things saved up in his heart. And so he brings good things out of his heart. But an evil person has evil things saved up in his heart. So he brings out bad things. A person speaks the things that are in his heart.
46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?
47 Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and obeys
48 is like a man building a house. He digs deep and lays his foundation on rock. The floods come, and the water tries to wash the house away. But the flood cannot move the house, because the house was built well.