Luke 6:29
To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer him also the other. If someone takes away your coat, do not withhold your tunic either.
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28Bless those who curse you and pray for those who mistreat you.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 18:23Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah, came up, slapped Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the Spirit of Yahweh take to go from me to speak to you?”
Lamentations 3:30Let him offer his cheek to the one who strikes him, and let him be filled to the full with reproach. 1
Matthew 5:39But I say to you, do not resist one who is evil. Instead, whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew 26:67Then they spit in his face and beat him, and struck him with the palms of their hands,
John 18:22When Jesus had said this, one of the officers standing there struck Jesus and said, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”
1 Corinthians 4:11Up to this present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally beaten, and we are homeless.
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 →