Matthew 5:39

The Sermon On The Mount: Retaliation

³⁸ 'Ye heard that it was said: Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth; ³⁹ but I -- I say to you, not to resist the evil, but whoever shall slap thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other; ⁴⁰ and whoever is willing to take thee to law, and thy coat to take -- suffer to him also the cloak.

But I Say to You

Contend with Him

1 Corinthians 6:7

Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

Isaiah 50:6

My back I have given to those smiting, And my cheeks to those plucking out, My face I hid not from shame and spitting.

Lamentations 3:30

He giveth to his smiter the cheek, He is filled with reproach.

1 Peter 3:9

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

Leviticus 19:18

Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I am Jehovah.

1 Samuel 24:10-15

Lo, this day have thine eyes seen how that Jehovah hath given thee to-day into my hand in the cave; and one said to slay thee, and mine eye hath pity on thee, and I say, I do not put forth my hand against my lord, for the anointed of Jehovah he is.

1 Samuel 25:31-34

that this is not to thee for a stumbling-block, and for an offence of heart to my lord -- either to shed blood for nought, or my lord's restraining himself; and Jehovah hath done good to my lord, and thou hast remembered thy handmaid.'

1 Samuel 26:8-10

And Abishai saith unto David, 'God hath shut up to-day thine enemy into thy hand; and, now, let me smite him, I pray thee, with a spear, even into the earth at once -- and I do repeat it to him.'

1 Kings 22:24

And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah draweth nigh, and smiteth Micaiah on the cheek, and saith, 'Where is this -- he hath passed over -- the Spirit of Jehovah -- from me to speak with thee?'

Job 16:10

They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

Job 31:29-31

If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

Proverbs 20:22

Do not say, 'I recompense evil,' Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee.

Proverbs 24:29

Say not, 'As he did to me, so I do to him, I render to each according to his work.'

Micah 5:1

Now gather thyself together, O daughter of troops, A siege he hath laid against us, With a rod they smite on the cheek the judge of Israel.

Luke 6:29-30

and to him smiting thee upon the cheek, give also the other, and from him taking away from thee the mantle, also the coat thou mayest not keep back.

Luke 22:64

and having blindfolded him, they were striking him on the face, and were questioning him, saying, 'Prophesy who he is who smote thee?'

Romans 12:17-19

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

Hebrews 12:4

Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;

James 5:6

ye did condemn -- ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.

1 Peter 2:20-23

for what renown is it, if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure it? but if, doing good and suffering for it, ye do endure, this is gracious with God,