40If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.


In Context

37 But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'No.' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

38 |You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'

39 But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

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

41 Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

Matthew 5:40 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:40And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have [thy] cloke also.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:40And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:40And if any man would go to law with thee, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:40and to him that would go to law with thee and take thy body coat, leave him thy cloak also.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:40And if any man would go to law with thee, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:40And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:40and whoever is willing to take thee to law, and thy coat to take — suffer to him also the cloak.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:40And if any man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.