Luke 6:29
If someone hits you on one cheek, turn the other cheek. If someone takes your coat, don't prevent them taking your shirt.
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28Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who mistreat you.
30Give to anyone who asks you. If someone takes something from you, don't ask for it back.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 18:23Then Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah, went and slapped Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the Lord go when he left me to speak to you?”
Lamentations 3:30They should turn a cheek to someone who wants to slap them; they should take the insults of others.
Matthew 5:39But I tell you, don't resist someone who is evil. If someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other cheek to them as well.
Matthew 26:67Then they spat in his face and beat him. Some of them slapped him with their hands,
John 18:22When he said this, one of the guards standing nearby slapped Jesus, saying, “Is that any way to speak to the high priest?”
1 Corinthians 4:11Right up till now we're hungry and thirsty. We have no clothes. We're badly beaten up, and we have no place to call 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 →