Matthew 5:40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.

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

New American Standard Bible
"If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat also.

King James Bible
And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As for the one who wants to sue you and take away your shirt, let him have your coat as well.

International Standard Version
If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat as well.

American Standard Version
And if any man would go to law with thee, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him.

Darby Bible Translation
and to him that would go to law with thee and take thy body coat, leave him thy cloak also.

Young's Literal Translation
and whoever is willing to take thee to law, and thy coat to take -- suffer to him also the cloak.

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Context

Revenge

38You have heard that it has been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39But I say to you, That you resist not evil: but whoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40And if any man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. 41And whoever shall compel you to go a mile, go with him two. 42Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not you away.

Cross References

Matthew 5:39
But I say to you, That you resist not evil: but whoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Matthew 5:41
And whoever shall compel you to go a mile, go with him two.

Luke 6:29
And to him that smites you on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that takes away your cloak forbid not to take your coat also.

1 Corinthians 7:36
But if any man think that he behaves himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sins not: let them marry.

Treasury of Scripture

And if any man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.

Luke 6:29 And to him that smites you on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that takes away your cloak forbid not to take your coat also.

1 Corinthians 6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong?...

Strong's Concordance

And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have [thy] cloke also.

Topical Bible

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