Matthew 5:39

Jesus says not to resist an evildoer but to turn the other cheek. It calls disciples to renounce personal vengeance and respond to evil with grace.

Cross-references · 21

• 1 Th 5:15Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.
• 1 Pet 3:9Do 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.
• Rom 12:17–19Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.
• Prov 20:22Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the LORD, and He will save you.
• Luke 6:29–30If 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.
• 1 Pet 2:20–23How 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.
• Lev 19:18Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
• Lam 3:30Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
• Prov 24:29Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
• Isa 50:6I 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.
• 1 Cor 6:7The 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 Sam 26:8–10Abishai 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 Sam 24:10–15Behold, 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.’
• Job 31:29–31If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
• Job 16:10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
• Jas 5:6You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.
• Luke 22:64They blindfolded Him and kept demanding, “Prophesy! Who hit You?”
• Heb 12:4In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
• 1 Kgs 22:24Then 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?”
• Mic 5:1Now, 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.
• 1 Sam 25:31–34then 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.”

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