Mat 5:39 | CPDV | STEP | But I say to you, do not resist one who is evil, but if anyone will have struck you on your right cheek, offer to him the other also.

Matthew 5:39

39 But I say to you, do not resist one who is evil, but if anyone will have struck you on your right cheek, offer to him the other also. ^{▼▼5:39 Not to resist evil, etc: What is here commanded, is a Christian patience under injuries and affronts, and to be willing even to suffer still more, rather than to indulge the desire of revenge: but what is further added does not strictly oblige according to the letter, for neither did Christ nor St. Paul turn the other cheek. St. John 18., and Acts 23.(Challoner)}