Matthew 5:40
And if any man wants to sue you, and take away your shirt, let him have your coat also.
Revised King James New Testament
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 shall compel you to go one mile, go with him two.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:7Now, it is utterly a defeat for you that you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather suffer the wrong? why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?
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 →