Matthew 5:41
Good News Translation
And if one of the occupation troops forces you to carry his pack one mile, carry it two miles.

New Revised Standard Version
and if anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile.

Contemporary English Version
If a soldier forces you to carry his pack one kilometer, carry it two kilometers.

New American Bible
Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two miles.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And whosoever will force thee one mile, go with him other two.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And whosoever will force thee one mile, go with him other two.

compel.

Matthew 27:32 And going out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon: him they forced to take up his cross.

Mark 15:21 And they forced one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and of Rufus, to take up his cross.

Luke 23:26 And as they led him away, they laid hold of one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country; and they laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus.

Context
Love Your Enemies
40And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him. 41And whosoever will force thee one mile, go with him other two. 42Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not away.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:40
And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him.

Matthew 5:42
Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not away.

Mark 15:21
And they forced one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and of Rufus, to take up his cross.

2 Corinthians 5:14
For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead.

Matthew 5:40
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