Matthew 5:39

New American Bible - revised edition

But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on [your] right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See that no one returns evil for evil; rather, always seek what is good [both] for each other and for all.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not return evil for evil, or insult for insult; but, on the contrary, a blessing, because to this you were called, that you might inherit a blessing.

Proverbs 20:22

Do not say, “I will repay evil!” Wait for the Lord, who will help you.

Lamentations 3:30

To offer one’s cheek to be struck, to be filled with disgrace.

Leviticus 19:18

Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your own people. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

Proverbs 24:29

Do not say, “As they did to me, so will I do to them; I will repay them according to their deeds.”

Isaiah 50:6

I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who tore out my beard; My face I did not hide from insults and spitting.

1 Corinthians 6:7

Now indeed [then] it is, in any case, a failure on your part that you have lawsuits against one another. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated?

James 5:6

You have condemned; you have murdered the righteous one; he offers you no resistance. Patience and Oaths.

Job 16:10

They gape at me with their mouths; They strike me on the cheek with insults; they are all enlisted against me.

Hebrews 12:4

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood.

Luke 22:64

They blindfolded him and questioned him, saying, “Prophesy! Who is it that struck you?”

1 Kings 22:24

Thereupon Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah, came up and struck Micaiah on the cheek, saying, “Has the spirit of the Lord, then, left me to speak with you?”

Micah 5:1

But you, Bethlehem-Ephrathah least among the clans of Judah, From you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel; Whose origin is from of old, from ancient times.

Matthew 5:40

If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well.

Luke 6:7

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him closely to see if he would cure on the sabbath so that they might discover a reason to accuse him.

John 18:23

Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”