³⁰ Strive not with a man without cause, If he have not done thee evil.

¹⁴ The beginning of contention `is' a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

⁶ The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.

⁸ Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?

⁹ Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,

²² An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

³⁹ but I -- I say to you, not to resist the evil, but whoever shall slap thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other;

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

⁴¹ `And whoever shall impress thee one mile, go with him two,

¹⁸ If possible -- so far as in you -- with all men being in peace;

¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance `is' Mine,

²⁰ I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;

²¹ Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

⁶ but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!

⁷ Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

⁸ but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!

²⁴ and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,