Matthew 5:39

The Sermon On The Mount: Retaliation

³⁸ You have heard that it has been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: ³⁹  But I say unto you, That you resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. ⁴⁰ And if any man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.

But I Say to You

Contend with Him

1 Corinthians 6:7

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

Isaiah 50:6

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked out the beard: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

Lamentations 3:30

He gives his cheek to him that strikes 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; knowing that you are unto this called, that you should inherit a blessing.

Leviticus 19:18

You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

1 Samuel 24:10-15

Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some bade me kill you: but my eye spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.

1 Samuel 25:31-34

That this shall be no grief unto you, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.

1 Samuel 26:8-10

Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day: now therefore let me strike him, I pray you, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not strike him the second time.

1 Kings 22:24

But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto you?

Job 16:10

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

Job 31:29-31

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

Proverbs 20:22

Say not, I will repay evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.

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 gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops: he has laid siege against us: they shall strike the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

Luke 6:29-30

And unto him that smites you on the one cheek offer also the other; and he that takes away your cloak forbid not to take your coat also.

Luke 22:64

And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that struck you?

Romans 12:17-19

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

Hebrews 12:4

You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

James 5:6

You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.

1 Peter 2:20-23

For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is commendable with God.