Matthew 5:39

Weymouth NT

But I tell you not to resist a wicked man, but if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

Cross References

Matthew 5:40

If any one wishes to go to law with you and to deprive you of your under garment, let him take your outer one also.

Luke 22:64

or blindfolded Him, and then challenged Him. »Prove to us,« they said, »that you are a prophet, by telling us who it was that struck you.«

Luke 6:7

The Scribes and the Pharisees were on the watch to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath that they might be able to bring an accusation against Him.

John 18:23

»If I have spoken wrongly,« replied Jesus, »bear witness to it as wrong; but if rightly, why that blow?«

1 Corinthians 6:7

To say no more, then, it is altogether a defect in you that you have law-suits with one another. Why not rather endure injustice? Why not rather submit to being defrauded?

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See to it that no one ever repays another with evil for evil; but always seek opportunities of doing good both to one another and to all the world.

Hebrews 12:4

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted so as to endanger your lives;

James 5:6

You have condemned –you have murdered– the righteous man: he offers no resistance.

1 Peter 3:9

not requiting evil with evil nor abuse with abuse, but, on the contrary, giving a blessing in return, because a blessing is what you have been called by God to inherit.