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 unto you, resist not him that is evil: but whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. ⁴⁰ And if any man would go to law with thee, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.

But I Say to You

Contend with Him

1 Corinthians 6:7

Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?

Isaiah 50:6

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

Lamentations 3:30

Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

1 Peter 3:9

not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

Leviticus 19:18

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

1 Samuel 24:10-15

Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that Jehovah had delivered thee to-day into my hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee; but mine eye'spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Jehovah's anointed.

1 Samuel 25:31-34

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

1 Samuel 26:8-10

Then said Abishai to David, God hath 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 went the Spirit of Jehovah from me to speak unto 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 that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

Proverbs 20:22

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

Proverbs 24:29

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

Micah 5:1

Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us; they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

Luke 6:29-30

To him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and from him that taketh away thy cloak withhold not thy coat also.

Luke 22:64

And they blindfolded him, and asked him, saying, Prophesy: who is he that struck thee?

Romans 12:17-19

Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but always follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all.

Hebrews 12:4

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one ; he doth not resist you.

1 Peter 2:20-23

For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted for it , ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it , ye shall take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.