Who said turn the other cheek

Our thoughts automatically go to paying them back for what they have done to us. We may not like what has been done to us, but we do not have the power to settle the score. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.

As Christians, we must be careful that when we confront evil, we do not harbor a desire for personal vengeance. In Acts , Paul gives us a perfect example of how we should act when we are wronged. Paul is before the Sanhedrin exclaiming his duty to God when the high priest Ananias strikes him on the mouth. He then goes on to call out the fact that the Sanhedrin is judging him according to the law that they are also violating when they slap Paul. When we are wronged, we are to use the word of God to retaliate.

In a gracious rebuke, we are to confront evil. Jesus did not say we were to stand aside and do nothing. He said that we were to confront the evils of the world by sharing the Gospel and praying for our enemies. We are to put on the armor of God and fight evil, not for personal gain but for the glory of God. Matthew says that we are to turn the other cheek. This is extremely difficult for most of us because we want revenge.

We want others to pay for what they have done to us. Even as a Christian we desire vengeance at times. God has explicitly told us that vengeance is His. We are to correct and rebuke evil with His word. We are to love our enemies and pray for them daily. Ashley Hooker is a freelance writer who spends her time homeschooling her two children, ministering alongside her husband as he pastors a rural church in West Virginia, and writing about her faith.

Currently, she is a contributing author for Journey Christian magazine. In her local church, she has served on various committees focusing in the area of evangelism along with traveling to West Virginia and Vermont to share the Gospel. Her dream is to spend her time writing and sharing the love of Christ with all she meets. Share this. What Exactly Is the Perseverance of the Saints? I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though. If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek. If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste?

In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek. If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work. If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'thank you very much' and turn the other cheek. Only Jesus Christ did that. Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen. If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level.

Surely not in passive indifference to evil, or in a feigned helplessness when the treasures of faith and reason are in danger of being lost. This injunction signifies rather the readiness of the soul to bear, if it be necessary , such things and worse without bitterness to the attacker.

Yes, as Jesus said, we must love our enemies and pray for our persecutors. The holy season of Lent begins next week. That war—one with eternal consequences—is being fought in our own hearts and minds. Our love of God is always in danger of growing cold, even as our passion for worldliness is always in danger of being enflamed. And all around us, the popular culture, the arrogance of the state, the witting and unwitting pawns and puppets of idols wish to seduce us or to silence us, and, finally, to consume us.

Lent is a time to discover whether anything other than God has power over us. Be an imitator of Christ. When He was slapped did He slap back? No, and in the same way if someone insults or slaps us we are to turn away from that person.

Violence and violence equals more violence. Never try to take the role of the Lord, but let Him avenge you. What does the Bible say? Matthew You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I tell you not to resist an evildoer.

On the contrary, whoever slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well. Proverbs Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.