6:41 - Why do you see the smallest fault in another, but not the largest that is in you?
6:42 - How can you offer to fix the smallest ill of another when you yourself are hindered by an even bigger ill? Fix yourself and then you will be in a better position to help another.
6:43 - A good tree will not produce spoiled fruit and a spoiled tree will not produce good fruit.
6:44 - Every tree has identifying characteristics, and thus people do not try to pick cherries off an apple tree.
6:45 - A good person with a good heart produces positive efforts; and an evil person with an evil heart produces negative efforts: for what predominates in one’s heart guides what one says.
6:46 - And why call me, Lord, Lord, and not do what I tell you?
6:47 - Whoever comes to me, hears what I have to say and then acts on it, will be like these:
6:48 - His faith is like a solidly built house where the foundation was dug deep and placed firmly on rock so that when the floods came and the water hit hard upon the house, there was no damage because it was built on rock.
6:49 - But the man who hears but doesn’t do is like a man who built a house with no foundation which then fell because the stream corroded it, causing massive damage.
