Matthew 5:39

The Sermon On The Mount: Retaliation

³⁸ Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. ³⁹ But I say to you, not to resist what is troublesome, but whoever will strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. ⁴⁰ And to the man who wants to sue thee, and take away thy coat, thou shall leave him thy cloak also.

But I Say to You

Contend with Him

1 Corinthians 6:7

Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

Isaiah 50:6

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.

Lamentations 3:30

Let him give his cheek to him who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach.

1 Peter 3:9

not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but instead giving praise, knowing that ye were called for this, so that ye might inherit a blessing.

Leviticus 19:18

Thou shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of thy people, but thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. I am LORD.

1 Samuel 24:10-15

Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that LORD had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave. And some bade me kill thee, but [I] spared thee. And I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is LORD's anoi

1 Samuel 25:31-34

that this shall be no grief to thee, nor offence of heart to my lord, either that thou have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. And when LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid

1 Samuel 26:8-10

Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day. Now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.

1 Kings 22:24

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way did the Spirit of LORD go from me to speak to thee?

Job 16:10

They have gaped upon me with their mouth. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Job 31:29-31

if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

Proverbs 20:22

Say thou not, I will recompense evil. Wait for LORD, and he will save thee.

Proverbs 24:29

Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.

Micah 5:1

Now thou shall gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

Luke 6:29-30

To him who strikes thee on the cheek offer the other also, and from him who takes away thy cloak, also do not withhold thy coat.

Luke 22:64

And having covered him, they struck his face, and demanded him, saying, Prophesy! Who is he who struck thee?

Romans 12:17-19

rendering to no man evil for evil, premeditating things right in the sight of all men.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See that not any man repays evil for evil to any man, but always pursue the good, both for each other and for all.

Hebrews 12:4

Ye have not yet resisted as far as blood, struggling against sin.

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the righteous man. He is not hostile to you.

1 Peter 2:20-23

For what kind of credit is it, if, sinning and being beaten, ye will endure? But if, doing good and suffering, ye will endure, this is graciousness with God.