Matthew 5:39
but I say to you not to resist the evil, but whoever will slap you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
38You heard that it was said: Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth;
40and whoever is willing to take you to law, and to take your coat—also permit to him the cloak.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:18You do not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of your people; and you have had love for your neighbor as yourself; I [am] YHWH.
1 Samuel 25:31that this is not to you for a stumbling-block, and for an offense of heart to my lord—either to shed blood for nothing, or my lord’s restraining himself; and YHWH has done good to my lord, and you have remembered your handmaid.”
1 Kings 22:24And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah draws near and strikes Micaiah on the cheek, and says, “Where [is] this [that] the spirit [from] YHWH has passed over from me to speak with you?”
Job 31:29If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, || And stirred up myself when evil found him,
Proverbs 24:29Do not say, “As he did to me, so I do to him, || I render to each according to his work.”
Lamentations 3:30He gives to his striker the cheek, || He is filled with reproach.
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 →