But now I tell you: do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, let him slap your left cheek too.

They blindfolded him and asked him, "Who hit you? Guess!"

Then the prophet Zedekiah went up to Micaiah, slapped his face, and asked, "Since when did the LORD's spirit leave me and speak to you?"

I bared my back to those who beat me. I did not stop them when they insulted me, when they pulled out the hairs of my beard and spit in my face.

Though beaten and insulted, we should accept it all.

People of Jerusalem, gather your forces! We are besieged! They are attacking the leader of Israel!

Then they spat in his face and beat him; and those who slapped him

When Jesus said this, one of the guards there slapped him and said, "How dare you talk like that to the High Priest!"

The High Priest Ananias ordered those who were standing close to Paul to strike him on the mouth.

To this very moment we go hungry and thirsty; we are clothed in rags; we are beaten; we wander from place to place;

You tolerate anyone who orders you around or takes advantage of you or traps you or looks down on you or slaps you in the face.

"Let Ziba have it all," Mephibosheth answered. "It's enough for me that Your Majesty has come home safely."

And if someone takes you to court to sue you for your shirt, let him have your coat as well.

And if one of the occupation troops forces you to carry his pack one mile, carry it two miles.

The very fact that you have legal disputes among yourselves shows that you have failed completely. Would it not be better for you to be wronged? Would it not be better for you to be robbed?

You shared the sufferings of prisoners, and when all your belongings were seized, you endured your loss gladly, because you knew that you still possessed something much better, which would last forever.