Luke 6:29

God's Word

If someone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other cheek as well. If someone takes your coat, don’t stop him from taking your shirt.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:30

“Let him take it all,” Mephibosheth told the king. “It’s enough for me that you’ve come home safely.”

2 Chronicles 18:23

Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah, went to Micaiah and struck him on the cheek. “Which way did the Spirit go when he left me to talk to you?” he asked.

Isaiah 50:6

I will offer my back to those who whip me and my cheeks to those who pluck hairs out of my beard. I will not turn my face away from those who humiliate me and spit on me.

Lamentations 3:30

They should turn their cheeks to the one who strikes them and take their fill of insults.

Micah 5:1

Now, gather your troops, you city of troops. We are under attack. Enemies will strike the judge of Israel on the cheek with a stick.

Matthew 26:67

Then they spit in his face, hit him with their fists, and some of them slapped him.

Luke 22:64

They blindfolded him and said to him, “Tell us who hit you.”

Luke 6:30

Give to everyone who asks you for something. If someone takes what is yours, don’t insist on getting it back.

John 18:22

When Jesus said this, one of the guards standing near Jesus slapped his face and said, “Is that how you answer the chief priest?”

Acts 23:2

The chief priest Ananias ordered the men standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

1 Corinthians 4:11

To this moment, we are hungry, thirsty, poorly dressed, roughly treated, and homeless.

1 Corinthians 6:7

You are already totally defeated because you have lawsuits against each other. Why don’t you accept the fact that you have been wronged? Why don’t you accept that you have been cheated?

2 Corinthians 11:20

When someone makes you slaves, consumes your wealth, seizes your property, orders you around, or slaps your faces, you put up with it.

Hebrews 10:34

You suffered with prisoners. You were cheerful even though your possessions were stolen, since you know that you have a better and more permanent possession.