Sentences with phrase «turn the other cheek on»
So Carl, the quid pro quo is fine — turn the other cheek on a total criminal because he helped you out politically?
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Yeah bullies only attack those who will turn the other cheek and take it on the chin.
Jesus did have an incredibly clear cut position on violence, one that Christians typically ignore (like most of his teachings): «Turn the other cheek.»
Sure, if a driver flips you off on the freeway, it's a noble and wise thing to «turn the other cheek» - but if a mass murderer is alive and planning more carnage, it would be an insult to all that is good, right, and just in the world to allow him to plan and execute further terrorist plots.
Do your follow the words of Jesus when he said «whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.
He says «This is the law, follow it or die» to the Israelites then apparently shows up later to say «Hey, all that stuff about eye for an eye and the Sabbath you can forget about, just be loving from now on and turn the other cheek when people smite thee.»
Consider Joel, what «The Bible» really says about «an eye for an eye»: Mat 5:38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: Mat 5:39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
And, «If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.»
It inconsistent with the teachings of Christianity to make snide remarks, as Christianity teaches its followers to be patient, kind, long - suffering, love your enemies, pray for those who despitefully use you, turn the other cheek, and so on.
Christ said «do good to those who persecute you» and «if someone hits you on the cheek, turn and let him hit the other cheek, too.»
«If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also,» he said.
It comes in a barrage of equally hard sayings toward the end of the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus tells his followers to turn the other cheek, give away your coat if someone sues you for your shirt, and «love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven» (Matthew 5:44 - 45).
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.
Jesus said, «If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
«If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also» (Matt 5:39 - 40).
Jesus didn't teach on changing the world by taking over the government; He taught on changing the world by showing radical, sacrificial, merciful love (turning the other cheek, going the extra mile, giving everything we have to the poor and following Him and His ways).
he did speak of «turning the other cheek, loving your enemies, he did admonish his disciple peter for using a sword on him, he did allow himself to be killed, he did chose to forigve»... i'm just now seeing anywhere in the NT where followers of christ are called to kill??? please show me... please show me in the the ten commandments where it instructs on killing... oh, it does say not to murder
Some of the most widely quoted sayings in the Sermon on the Mount, and the ones most consistently violated, are the commands (Mt 5:38 - 42) to turn the other cheek, to give the cloak when deprived of the coat, to go two miles when compelled to go one, to refuse no request for a gift or a loan, to offer no resistance to an evil man, as recent translations read where the KJV says «resist not evil.»
But when was the last time you deliberately took it on the chin, turned the other cheek and kept your mouth shut?
I just wonder how Jesus would have handled «Islamofascists» when He instructed people that when we are struck on one cheek to turn the other also.
29 If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also.
If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.
Turning the other cheek, going the extra mile and so on.
«If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also» (Matt.
I have defended the right as well for people to agree or disagree with me — but if someone tries to choke me I am gonna «turn my other cheek» on the way around to defending myself!!!
39bBut if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also; 40and if any one would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well; 41and if any one forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
(If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also.
We are told that he did not mean that we are to turn the other cheek or go the second mile — that is Oriental hyperbole; he meant something quite reasonable and practicable, as, for example, that we are not to take vengeance on our enemies.
But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also» (Matt.
Whereas Jesus said, «If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also,» President Bush, who claims to be a follower of Jesus, says, «If you think that Hussein will strike you on one cheek, hit him, along with innocent bystanders.»
Matthew 5:38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
One of my favorite parts of the book is the section about the Sermon on the Mount and the «third way» of turning the other cheek, walking the extra mile, and literally giving up the clothes off our backs.
One night I gave to the fourteen - year - olds in my cabin a brief exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, including the injunction to «turn the other cheek.»
But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any one would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well; and if any one forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
- Do Not Swear at All - If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Turn the other cheek was Jesus» words on someone else striking you across the face to shame you.
Take, for example, the injunction, «If any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.»
Speaking as a journalist, I know» very sadly» that what tends to make people sit up and take notice is violence; and while Christians may not always turn the other cheek, they do tend to take it all lying down, and get on with it as best they can, and that doesn't necessarily make for front - page headlines.»
They prey on the fact that the victim is going to feel obligated to be nice, forgive, think the best, turn the other cheek, go the extra mile, etc (all the things good little Christians do).
If the religious community didn't push Creationism and Intelligent Design to be taught on equal ground as the Scientific Method, we might turn the other cheek or play nice and leave you to your supernatural and magical sky fairies or cosmic butterflies, or whatever mythologies one wishes to lobotomize their brains with.
He's allowed to be the vindictive God of the Hebrew's raining death on women and children alike, then all of a sudden he is turning the other cheek and healing the soldier ear.
Once - Reluctant said, on November 12th, 2009 at 10:13 pm It's good to see you can take the humour in stride, and even turn the other cheek.
It seems to witness to the teaching of Jesus on the level of personal relations — Love your enemy, turn the other cheek.
While Jesus» name won't appear on the ballot this fall, I imagine that every time I care for the poor, attempt to live more simply, turn the other cheek, and love my enemies, I'm casting a vote for Jesus, who will one day return to rule His Kingdom in person.
When He says that if someone wants to take your cloak, give him your tunic as well, or when someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to them the other also, it stretches the imagination to think that He would be fine with killing someone when they try to do more than slap you on the cheek or take your cloak.
But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.
The rest support unnecessary mass - murder and torture for profit based on lies as in the War of Choice in Iraq in direct contradiction to the spirit and literal teachings of Jesus (turn the other cheek, blessed are the peacemakers, love your enemies, repay evil with good, he who lives by the sword will die by the sword, forgive seventy times seven, thou shalt not kill, etc.).
The whole history of constitutional government is a commentary on the excellence of resisting evil, and when one cheek is smitten, of smiting back and not turning the other cheek also.