Matthew 5:40

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Matthew 5:39

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.

Matthew 5:41

Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two miles.

Luke 6:29

To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic.

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?

1 Corinthians 7:36

If anyone thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, and if a critical moment has come and so it has to be, let him do as he wishes. He is committing no sin; let them get married.