Matthew 5:38 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁸Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

Matthew 5:38 —

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Leviticus 24:19-20
And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; …
Deuteronomy 19:21
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Exodus 21:22-27
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. …
Deuteronomy 19:19
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
Matthew 5:27
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 38-42)

In these verses the law of retaliation is expounded, and in a manner repealed. Observe, I. What the Old-Testament permission was, in case of injury; and here the expression is only, Ye have heard that is has been said; not, as before, concerning the commands of the decalogue, that it has been said by, or to, them of old time. It was a command, that every one should of necessity require such satisf…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 38)

38. Ye have heard that it hath been said--(Ex 21:23-25; Le 24:19, 20; De 19:21). An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth--that is, whatever penalty was regarded as a proper equivalent for these. This law of retribution--designed to take vengeance out of the hands of private persons, and commit it to the magistrate--was abused in the opposite way to the commandments of the Decalogue. While they…