Love Your Enemies
Luke 6:29
In 9 translations
- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.
- WEB
- To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.
- ASV
- To him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and from him that taketh away thy cloak withhold not thy coat also.
- LSV
- and to him striking you on the cheek, give also the other, and from him taking away from you the mantle, also the coat you may not keep back.
- YLT
- and to him smiting thee upon the cheek, give also the other, and from him taking away from thee the mantle, also the coat thou mayest not keep back.
- DBY
- To him that smites thee on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him that would take away thy garment, forbid not thy body-coat also.
- DRC
- And to him that striketh thee on the one cheek, offer also the other. And him that taketh away from thee thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also.
- GNV
- And vnto him that smiteth thee on ye one cheeke, offer also the other: and him that taketh away thy cloke, forbid not to take thy coate also.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- τῷ τύπτοντί σε ἐπὶ τὴν σιαγόνα πάρεχε καὶ τὴν ἄλλην, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ αἴροντός σου τὸ ἱμάτιον καὶ τὸν χιτῶνα μὴ κωλύσῃς.
- RP2018
- Τῷ τύπτοντί σε ἐπὶ τὴν σιαγόνα, πάρεχε καὶ τὴν ἄλλην· καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ αἴροντός σου τὸ ἱμάτιον, καὶ τὸν χιτῶνα μὴ κωλύσῃς.
- TR-Boyd
- Τῷ τύπτοντί σε ἐπὶ τὴν σιαγόνα, πάρεχε καὶ τὴν ἄλλην· καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ αἴροντός σου τὸ ἱμάτιον, καὶ τὸν χιτῶνα μὴ κωλύσῃς.
- SCR1894
- τω τυπτοντι σε επι την σιαγονα παρεχε και την αλλην και απο του αιροντος σου το ιματιον και τον χιτωνα μη κωλυσης
Who and where
◆ Sermon on the Mount
People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
Sermon on the mountDressSermon on the Plain, TheSermonCheekCheek; CheekboneGood for EvilCloak; ClokeCloakForbid
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Hebrews 10:34You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.
- Matthew 5:39–42But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also; if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well; and if someone forces…
- 2 Corinthians 11:20In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.
- 1 Corinthians 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?
- Isaiah 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.
- Matthew 26:67Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him
- John 18:22When Jesus had said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Him in the face and said, “Is this how You answer the high priest?”
- Lamentations 3:30Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
- 1 Corinthians 4:11To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
- Luke 22:64They blindfolded Him and kept demanding, “Prophesy! Who hit You?”
- 2 Chronicles 18:23Then 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?”
- Acts 23:2At this, the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.
- 2 Samuel 19:30And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”
- Micah 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.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).