Matthew 5:38 - Revised Standard Version CI

³⁸ “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. [Exod. 21:24; Lev. 24:20; Deut. 19:21.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

Common English Bible

³⁸ “You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ You have heard that it was said: 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'

Matthew 5:38 Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:21

Your eye shall not pity; it shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Deuteronomy 19:19

then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.

Matthew 5:27

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’

Matthew 5:21

“You have heard that it was said to the men of old, ‘You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.’