Lamentations 3:30

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Let him offer his cheek to the one who strikes him, and let him be filled with disgrace.

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  • Isa 50:6 : 6 I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard. I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.
  • Job 16:10 : 10 They gape at me with their mouths; they strike my cheeks in scorn and together they conspire against me.
  • Matt 5:39 : 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other also.
  • Matt 26:67 : 67 Then they spat in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him,
  • Luke 6:29 : 29 If someone strikes you on one cheek, offer them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt either.
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 In fact, you put up with anyone who enslaves you, devours you, takes advantage of you, exalts himself, or strikes you in the face.
  • Ps 69:9 : 9 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s sons.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 You know my reproach, my shame, and my disgrace; all my adversaries are before you.
  • Ps 123:3 : 3 Show us mercy, O LORD, show us mercy, for we have had more than enough of scorn.
  • Mic 5:1 : 1 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come one for me to be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.

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  • Lam 3:28-29
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    28 Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him.

    29 Let him put his mouth in the dust—there may yet be hope.

  • Isa 50:6-7
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    6 I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard. I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

    7 Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore, I have set my face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.

  • Luke 6:29-30
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    29 If someone strikes you on one cheek, offer them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt either.

    30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.

  • Matt 5:38-40
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    38 You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'

    39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other also.

    40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.

  • 10 They gape at me with their mouths; they strike my cheeks in scorn and together they conspire against me.

  • 23 When He was reviled, He did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but entrusted Himself to the One who judges justly.

  • 3 For even Christ did not please Himself; as it is written: 'The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.'

  • 41 You have broken through all his walls; you have reduced his strongholds to ruins.

  • 12 Repay our neighbors sevenfold into their own laps the scorn they have hurled at You, Lord.

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    63 The men who were holding Jesus began mocking and beating him.

    64 They blindfolded him, struck him in the face, and demanded, 'Prophesy! Who hit you?'

  • 32 'He will be handed over to the Gentiles, mocked, abused, and spit upon.'

  • 30 They spat on Him, took the staff, and struck Him on the head repeatedly.

  • 65 Then some began to spit on him. They blindfolded him, struck him with their fists, and said, "Prophesy!" And the guards took him and beat him.

  • 44 The robbers who were crucified with Him also heaped insults on Him in the same way.

  • 7 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.

  • 67 Then they spat in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him,

  • 7 Let those who hope in you, Lord God of Hosts, not be ashamed because of me; let those who seek you, God of Israel, not be humiliated because of me.

  • 31 For the Lord will not reject forever.

  • 16 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face.

  • 5 Let a righteous person strike me—it is a kindness; let them rebuke me—it is oil on my head, which my head will not refuse. For my prayer is still against the deeds of the wicked.

  • 20 In fact, you put up with anyone who enslaves you, devours you, takes advantage of you, exalts himself, or strikes you in the face.

  • 3 But they seized him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

  • 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we did not esteem him.

  • Lam 3:15-16
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    15 He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink wormwood.

    16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes.

  • 20 You know my reproach, my shame, and my disgrace; all my adversaries are before you.

  • 23 It claps its hands at him and hisses at him as he is driven away from his place.

  • 23 Jesus replied, 'If I said something wrong, testify about what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why do you hit me?'

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    19 For this is commendable: if someone endures grief, suffering unjustly because of their conscience toward God.

    20 What credit is it if you sin and are beaten for it, and you endure? But if you do good and suffer for it, and you endure, this is commendable before God.

  • 34 He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble.

  • 31 Who will confront him with his conduct? Who repays him for what he has done?

  • 26 Let those who rejoice at my distress be ashamed and disgraced together; let those who exalt themselves over me wear shame and dishonor.

  • 3 You have insulted me ten times now; you are not even ashamed that you mistreat me.

  • 19 They kept striking His head with a staff, spitting on Him, and kneeling down in mock worship of Him.

  • 18 Poverty and shame come to those who ignore discipline, but those who heed correction are honored.

  • 3 Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long.

  • 10 For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

  • 9 Do not repay evil for evil or insult for insult, but on the contrary, give a blessing, because to this you were called, so that you may inherit a blessing.

  • 25 But it will go well with those who rebuke, and a blessing of goodness will come upon them.

  • 14 If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

  • 14 From the fruit of their lips, people are filled with good things, and the work of their hands brings them reward.

  • 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

  • 12 Destruction is in its midst; oppression and deceit do not leave its streets.