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Go the Second Mile

38 “You have heard that it was said, a‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’  
39 aBut I tell you not to resist an evil person. bBut whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.  
40 If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also.
41 And whoever acompels you to go one mile, go with him two.  
42 Give to him who asks you, and afrom him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.  

Love Your Enemies

43 “You have heard that it was said, a‘You shall love your neighbor band hate your enemy.’  
44 But I say to you, alove your enemies, bless those who curse you, bdo good to those who hate you, and pray cfor those who spitefully use you and persecute you,  
45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for aHe makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.  
46 aFor if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?  
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John Wesley's Notes
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Matthew 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.


 
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