Matthew 5:40 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

If someone wants to sue you in order to take your shirt, let him have your coat too.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

And if any man goes to law with you and takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe from him.

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

WEY:

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.

WBS:

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

WEB:

If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.

YLT:

and whoever is willing to take thee to law, and thy coat to take -- suffer to him also the cloak.

Matthew 5:40 Cross References

XREF:

Matthew 5:39 "But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

Matthew 5:41 "Whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

5:40 If any man will sue. That is, is about to sue thee.
Take away thy coat. The inner garment, the tunic or shirt.
Cloke. The outer garment, the covering at night. It could not be held by a creditor (Ex 22:26-27). Better to give it up, too, than to engage in litigation. Many a poor soul has realized this when it was too late, and the lawyers had divided his property. Avoid lawsuits.

WES:

5:40-41 Where the damage is not great, choose rather to suffer it, though possibly it may on that account be repeated, than to demand an eye for an eye, to enter into a rigorous prosecution of the offender. The meaning of the whole passage seems to be, rather than return evil for evil, when the wrong is purely personal, submit to one bodily wrong after another, give up one part of your goods after another, submit to one instance of compulsion after another. That the words are not literally to be understood, appears from the behaviour of our Lord himself, John 18:22,23.

MHC:

5:38-42 The plain instruction is, Suffer any injury that can be borne, for the sake of peace, committing your concerns to the Lord's keeping. And the sum of all is, that Christians must avoid disputing and striving. If any say, Flesh and blood cannot pass by such an affront, let them remember, that flesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of God; and those who act upon right principles will have most peace and comfort.

CONC:

Anyone Body Cloak Cloke Coat Deprive Garment Goes Law Leave Outer Robe Shirt Someone Sue Sues Suffer Takes Tunic Wants Willing Wishes

Body Cloak Cloke Coat Deprive Garment Goes Law Outer Robe Shirt Someone Sue Sues Suffer Tunic Wants Willing Wishes

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