Luke 6:29
Good News Translation
If anyone hits you on one cheek, let him hit the other one too; if someone takes your coat, let him have your shirt as well.

New Revised Standard Version
If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt.

Contemporary English Version
If someone slaps you on one cheek, don't stop that person from slapping you on the other cheek. If someone wants to take your coat, don't try to keep back your shirt.

New American Bible
To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And to him that striketh thee on the one cheek, offer also the other. And him that taketh away from thee thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And to him that striketh thee on the one cheek, offer also the other. And him that taketh away from thee thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also.

unto.

Matthew 5:39 But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other:

smiteth.

Luke 22:64 And they blindfolded him and smote his face. And they asked him saying: Prophesy: Who is it that struck thee?

2 Chronicles 18:23 And Sedecias the son of Chanaana came, and struck Micheas on the cheek and said: Which way went the spirit of the Lord from me, to speak to thee?

Isaiah 50:6 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.

Lamentations 3:30 Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.

Micah 5:1 Arise, and tread, O daughter of Sion: for I will make thy horn iron, and thy hoofs I will make brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples, and shalt immolate the spoils of them to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of the whole earth.

Matthew 26:67 Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him. And others struck his face with the palms of their hands,

John 18:22 And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing by gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so?

Acts 23:2 And the high priest, Ananias, commanded them that stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

1 Corinthians 4:11 Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no fixed abode.

2 Corinthians 11:20 For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face.

and him.

2 Samuel 19:30 And Miphiboseth answered the king: Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is returned peaceably into his house.

Matthew 5:40,41 And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:7 Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have law suits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Hebrews 10:34 For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.

Context
Love Your Enemies
28Bless them that curse you and pray for them that calumniate you. 29And to him that striketh thee on the one cheek, offer also the other. And him that taketh away from thee thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also. 30Give to every one that asketh thee: and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not again.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:39
But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other:

Matthew 5:40
And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him.

Luke 6:30
Give to every one that asketh thee: and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not again.

Luke 6:28
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