Matthew 5:40
And if any man goes to law with you and takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe from him.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
In Context
41And whoever makes you go one mile, go with him two.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:7More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?
Matthew Henry on Matthew 5:39-43
The Sermon on the Mount. 38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. 41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. 42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. In these verses the law… Read the whole commentary →