Matthew 5:39
But 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.
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38You've heard that the law said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’
40If someone wants to sue you in court and takes your shirt, give them your coat too.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:18Don't look for revenge or hold a grudge against anybody, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
1 Samuel 25:31you won't have feelings of remorse or a guilty conscience over unnecessary bloodshed or of taking your own revenge. And when the Lord has done these good things for you, sir, please remember me, your maidservant.”
1 Kings 22:24Then 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?”
Job 31:29Have I ever been happy when disaster destroyed those who hated me, or celebrated when evil took them down?
Proverbs 24:29Don't say to yourself, “I'm going to do to him what he did to me! I'll pay him back for what he's done!”
Lamentations 3:30They should turn a cheek to someone who wants to slap them; they should take the insults of others.
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 →