Matthew 5:39

Good News Translation

But now I tell you: do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, let him slap your left cheek too.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:24

Then the prophet Zedekiah went up to Micaiah, slapped his face, and asked, “Since when did the Lord's spirit leave me and speak to you?”

Job 16:10

People sneer at me; they crowd around me and slap my face.

Proverbs 20:22

Don't take it on yourself to repay a wrong. Trust the Lord and he will make it right.

Proverbs 24:29

Don't say, “I'll do to them just what they did to me! I'll get even with them!”

Isaiah 50:6

I bared my back to those who beat me. I did not stop them when they insulted me, when they pulled out the hairs of my beard and spit in my face.

Lamentations 3:30

Though beaten and insulted, we should accept it all.

Leviticus 19:18

Do not take revenge on others or continue to hate them, but love your neighbors as you love yourself. I am the Lord.

Micah 5:1

People of Jerusalem, gather your forces! We are besieged! They are attacking the leader of Israel!

Matthew 5:40

And if someone takes you to court to sue you for your shirt, let him have your coat as well.

Luke 22:64

They blindfolded him and asked him, “Who hit you? Guess!”

Luke 6:7

Some teachers of the Law and some Pharisees wanted a reason to accuse Jesus of doing wrong, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath.

John 18:23

Jesus answered him, “If I have said anything wrong, tell everyone here what it was. But if I am right in what I have said, why do you hit me?”

1 Corinthians 6:7

The very fact that you have legal disputes among yourselves shows that you have failed completely. Would it not be better for you to be wronged? Would it not be better for you to be robbed?

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See that no one pays back wrong for wrong, but at all times make it your aim to do good to one another and to all people.

Hebrews 12:4

For in your struggle against sin you have not yet had to resist to the point of being killed.

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered innocent people, and they do not resist you.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not pay back evil with evil or cursing with cursing; instead, pay back with a blessing, because a blessing is what God promised to give you when he called you.