Luke 6:29
To him that strikes you on one cheek, offer also the other; and from him that takes away your mantle, withhold not your coat.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
28bless them that curse you; pray for them that abuse you.
30Give to every one that asks of you; and of him that takes away your goods, ask them not again.
Cross References
Matthew 5:39But I say to you, Resist not the injurious. But whoever will smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew 26:67Then did they spit in his face, and strike him with their fists; some struck him with the open hand,
John 18:22When he had spoken thus, one of the attendants, who was standing by, struck Jesus with his open hand, saying: Do you answer the chief priest thus?
1 Corinthians 4:11Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are maltreated, and wander about without a home,
Matthew Henry on Luke 6:28-37
Exhortations to Justice and Mercy. 27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, 28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. 29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also. 30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. 31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. 32 For… Read the whole commentary →