Matthew 5:39

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Matthew 5:37–41 · Berean Standard Bible

37 Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ Anything more comes from the evil one.

38 You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’

39 But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;

40 if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well;

41 and if someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.

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Leviticus 19:18

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

1 Samuel 24:10

Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s anointed.’

1 Samuel 24:11

See, my father, look at the corner of your robe in my hand. For I cut it off, but I did not kill you. See and know that there is no evil or rebellion in my hands. I have not sinned against you, even though you are hunting me down to take my life.

1 Samuel 24:12

May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD take vengeance on you, but my hand will never be against you.

1 Samuel 24:13

As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.

1 Samuel 24:14

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?

1 Samuel 24:15

May the LORD be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand.”

1 Samuel 25:31

then my lord will have no remorse or guilt of conscience over needless bloodshed and revenge. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, may you remember your maidservant.”

1 Samuel 25:32

Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me this day!

1 Samuel 25:33

Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.

1 Samuel 25:34

Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”

1 Samuel 26:8

Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”

1 Samuel 26:9

But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”

1 Samuel 26:10

David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

Job 31:29

If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

Job 31:30

I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—

Job 31:31

if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

Proverbs 20:22

Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the LORD, and He will save you.

Proverbs 24:29

Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”

Luke 6:29

If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone takes your cloak, do not withhold your tunic as well.

Romans 12:17

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.

Romans 12:18

If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.

Romans 12:19

Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 6:7

The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

1 Thessalonians 5:15

Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.

Hebrews 12:4

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

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.

1 Kings 22:24

Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”

Job 16:10

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

Isaiah 50:6

I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.

Lamentations 3:30

Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

Micah 5:1

Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

Luke 22:64

They blindfolded Him and kept demanding, “Prophesy! Who hit You?”

1 Peter 2:20

How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

1 Peter 2:21

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

1 Peter 2:22

“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

1 Peter 2:23

When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.