Matthew 5:39

The Sermon On The Mount: Retaliation

³⁸ Ye have heard that it has been said, Eye for eye and tooth for tooth. ³⁹ But I say unto you, not to resist evil; but whoever shall strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other; ⁴⁰ and to him that would go to law with thee and take thy body coat, leave him thy cloak also.

But I Say to You

Contend with Him

1 Corinthians 6:7

Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?

Isaiah 50:6

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

Lamentations 3:30

he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach.

1 Peter 3:9

not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing others, because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing.

Leviticus 19:18

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

1 Samuel 24:10-15

Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that Jehovah had given thee this day into my hand in the cave; and they 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 the anointed of Jehovah.

1 Samuel 25:31-34

that this shall be no stumbling-block to thee, nor offence of heart for my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. And when Jehovah shall deal well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.

1 Samuel 26:8-10

And Abishai said to David, God has delivered thine enemy into thy hand this day; and now let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear, even to the ground once, and I will not do it the second time.

1 Kings 22:24

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micah upon the cheek, and said, Where now went the Spirit of Jehovah from me to speak to thee?

Job 16:10

They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.

Job 31:29-31

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;

Proverbs 20:22

Say not, I will recompense evil: wait on Jehovah, and he shall 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 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 smites thee on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him that would take away thy garment, forbid not thy body-coat also.

Luke 22:64

and covering him up, asked him saying, Prophesy, who is it that struck thee?

Romans 12:17-19

recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men:

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue always what is good towards one another and towards all;

Hebrews 12:4

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.

James 5:6

ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you.

1 Peter 2:20-23

For what glory is it, if sinning and being buffeted ye shall bear it? but if, doing good and suffering, ye shall bear it, this is acceptable with God.