Matthew 5:40

Webster's Bible (1833)

If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 6:28-31
    4 verses
    87%

    28bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

    29To 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.

    30Give 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 5:41-44
    4 verses
    85%

    41Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

    42Give 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.'

    44But 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 5:38-39
    2 verses
    82%

    38"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'

    39But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

  • Luke 12:58
    74%

    58For 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 5:23-26
    4 verses
    74%

    23"If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

    24leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

    25Agree 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.

    26Most assuredly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.{Literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta (widow's mites)--not enough to buy very much of anything.}

  • 1 Cor 6:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

    7Therefore 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?

  • Luke 3:11
    72%

    11He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."

  • Luke 22:36
    72%

    36Then 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.

  • Mark 13:16
    71%

    16Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.

  • Mark 6:9
    71%

    9but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.

  • Matt 20:14
    71%

    14Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

  • Exod 22:26
    70%

    26If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

  • Exod 21:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

    25burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

  • Luke 5:36
    70%

    36He 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.

  • 1 Cor 6:1
    70%

    1Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

  • Deut 25:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2and 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.

    3Forty 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.

  • Matt 24:18
    69%

    18Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.

  • Matt 5:11
    69%

    11"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

  • Rom 12:20
    69%

    20Therefore "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."

  • 2 Cor 11:20
    69%

    20For 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.

  • Luke 9:3
    69%

    3He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey--neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece.

  • Luke 12:11
    69%

    11When 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;

  • Matt 18:35
    69%

    35So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."

  • Matt 20:4
    69%

    4To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way.

  • Exod 22:9
    68%

    9For 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.

  • Matt 16:24
    68%

    24Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

  • Prov 25:21
    68%

    21If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

  • Lam 3:30
    68%

    30Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.

  • Matt 27:31
    68%

    31When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.

  • Matt 18:15
    68%

    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.

  • Rom 12:14
    68%

    14Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse.

  • Matt 27:28
    68%

    28They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.

  • Col 3:13
    68%

    13bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

  • Rom 12:17
    68%

    17Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

  • Lev 24:20
    68%

    20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

  • Job 22:6
    68%

    6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Exod 22:5
    68%

    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.