Matthew 5:40 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁰ and if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, give your coat as well,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ And if anyone wants to sue you and take your undershirt (tunic), let him have your coat also.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ And if any man would go to law with thee, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ When they wish to haul you to court and take your shirt, let them have your coat too.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ And anyone who wishes to contend with you in judgment, and to take away your tunic, release to him your cloak also.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁰ And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him.

Matthew 5:40 Cross References

Matthew 5:39

But I say to you: Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also,

Matthew 5:41

and if anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile.

Luke 6:29

If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt.

1 Corinthians 6:7

In fact, to have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

1 Corinthians 7:36

If anyone thinks that he is behaving indecently toward his fiancée, if his passions are strong and so it has to be, let him marry as he wishes; it is no sin. Let them marry.