Matthew 5:40
If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.
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- Luke 6:29 : 29 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.
- 1 Cor 6:7 : 7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
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- Luke 6:28-314 verses87%
28 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
29 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.
30 Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.
31 "As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.
- Matt 5:41-444 verses85%
41 Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'
44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
- Matt 5:38-392 verses82%
38 "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'
39 But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
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58 For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
- Matt 5:23-264 verses74%
23 "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,
24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
25 Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
26 Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.
- 1 Cor 6:6-72 verses73%
6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
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11 He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."
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36 Then he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.
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16 Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
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9 but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.
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14 Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.
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26 If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
- Exod 21:24-252 verses70%
24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
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36 He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
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1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
- Deut 25:2-32 verses70%
2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
3 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.
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18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
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11 "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
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20 Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."
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20 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
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3 He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey--neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece.
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11 When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;
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35 So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."
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4 To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way.
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9 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
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24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
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21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:
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30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
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31 When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.
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15 "If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
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14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse.
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28 They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.
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13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
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17 Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
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20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.
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6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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5 "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.