Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. New Living Translation If you are sued in court and your shirt is taken from you, give your coat, too. English Standard Version And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. Berean Standard Bible if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well; Berean Literal Bible And to the one willing to sue you and to take your tunic, yield to him the cloak as well. King James Bible And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. New King James Version If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. New American Standard Bible And if anyone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak also. NASB 1995 “If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat also. NASB 1977 “And if anyone wants to sue you, and take your shirt, let him have your coat also. Legacy Standard Bible And if anyone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your garment also. Amplified Bible If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat also [for the Lord repays the offender]. Christian Standard Bible As for the one who wants to sue you and take away your shirt, let him have your coat as well. 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. American Standard Version And if any man would go to law with thee, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And whoever wants to sue you and take your coat, leave for him also your cloak. Contemporary English Version If someone sues you for your shirt, give up your coat as well. 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. English Revised Version And if any man would go to law with thee, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. GOD'S WORD® Translation If someone wants to sue you in order to take your shirt, let him have your coat too. Good News Translation And if someone takes you to court to sue you for 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. Literal Standard Version and whoever is willing to take you to law, and to take your coat—also permit to him the cloak. Majority Standard Bible if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well; New American Bible If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well. NET Bible And if someone wants to sue you and to take your tunic, give him your coat also. New Revised Standard Version and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well; New Heart English Bible And if anyone sues you to take away your shirt, let him have your coat also. Webster's Bible Translation And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. Weymouth New Testament If any one wishes to go to law with you and to deprive you of your under garment, let him take your outer one also. World English Bible If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Love Your Enemies…39But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also; 40 if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well; 41and if someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.… Cross References Matthew 5:39 But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also; Matthew 5:41 and if someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Luke 6:29 If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone takes your cloak, do not withhold your tunic as well. 1 Corinthians 7:36 However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married. 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 unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also. 1 Corinthians 6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Jump to Previous Body Cloak Cloke Coat Deprive Garment Goes Law Outer Robe Shirt Someone Sue Sues Suffer Tunic Wants Willing WishesJump to Next Body Cloak Cloke Coat Deprive Garment Goes Law Outer Robe Shirt Someone Sue Sues Suffer Tunic Wants Willing WishesMatthew 5 1. Jesus' sermon on the mount:3. The Beattitudes; 13. the salt of the earth; 14. the light of the world. 17. He came to fulfill the law. 21. What it is to kill; 27. to commit adultery; 33. to swear. 38. He exhorts to forgive wrong, 43. to love our enemies; 48. and to labor after perfection. (40) If any man will sue thee at the law.--The Greek is somewhat stronger: If a man will go--i.e., is bent on going--to law with thee. The verse presents another aspect of the same temper of forbearance. Not in regard to acts of violence only, but also in dealing with the petty litigation that disturbs so many men's peace, it is better to yield than to insist on rights. St. Paul gives the same counsel to the believers at Corinth: "Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?" (1Corinthians 6:7). Here also, of course, the precept, absolutely binding, as far as self-interest is concerned, may be traversed by higher considerations. Coat.--The close-fitting tunic worn next the body. Cloke.--The outer flowing mantle, the more costly garment of the two. (Comp. John 19:23, and the combination of the two words, in Acts 9:39, "coats and garments.") The meaning of the illustration is obvious. It is wise rather to surrender more than is demanded, than to disturb the calm of our own spirit by wrangling and debate. Verse 40. - The parallel passage, Luke 6:29b, gives the taking of the garments in the converse order. And if any man will sue thee; Revised Version, and if any man would go to law with thee. Notice that "will," "would" (τῷ θέλοντι), implies that the trial has not yet even begun. Do this even before it. And take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. Coat (χιτών), equivalent to tunic, "shirt-like under-garment" (Meyer). Cloke (ἱμάτιον), equivalent to over-cloak, "mantle-like over-garment, toga, which also served for a covering by night, and might not therefore be retained as a pledge over night (Exodus 22:26)' (Meyer). This is put second, as being the more valuable. In Luke, where there is no mention of the law-court, the thought seems to be merely of the violent removal of the garments, taking them as they came. Let him have (ἄφες αὐτῷ). More positive than Luke's "withhold not" (μὴ κωλύσῃς).Parallel Commentaries ... Greek if someoneτῷ (tō) Article - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. wants θέλοντί (thelonti) Verb - Present Participle Active - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 2309: To will, wish, desire, be willing, intend, design. to sue κριθῆναι (krithēnai) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Passive Strong's 2919: Properly, to distinguish, i.e. Decide; by implication, to try, condemn, punish. you σοι (soi) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. take λαβεῖν (labein) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active Strong's 2983: (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of. your σου (sou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. tunic, χιτῶνά (chitōna) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 5509: A tunic, garment, undergarment. Of foreign origin; a tunic or shirt. let him have ἄφες (aphes) Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 863: From apo and hiemi; to send forth, in various applications. [your] τὸ (to) Article - Accusative Neuter Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. cloak ἱμάτιον (himation) Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular Strong's 2440: A long flowing outer garment, tunic. Neuter of a presumed derivative of ennumi; a dress. as well; καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. Links Matthew 5:40 NIVMatthew 5:40 NLT Matthew 5:40 ESV Matthew 5:40 NASB Matthew 5:40 KJV Matthew 5:40 BibleApps.com Matthew 5:40 Biblia Paralela Matthew 5:40 Chinese Bible Matthew 5:40 French Bible Matthew 5:40 Catholic Bible NT Gospels: Matthew 5:40 If anyone sues you to take away (Matt. Mat Mt) |