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在耶稣的教导中，几乎没有比这“转过另一边脸”的命令更难做得到。有人得罪我们打我们的脸时，我们自然会想报复。然而神却吩咐我们要转过另一边脸由他打。祂是否在吩咐我们任凭别人肆意霸凌我们呢？我们是否绝对不可以自卫？不是这样。其实这个命令有着更深含义。

有人得罪我们时，要记着没有一项罪是不会受到惩罚的，这会令我们感到好过一点。无论犯了任何一项罪，都是要付代价的。主说：“伸冤在我，我必报应”。（参申 32:35；罗 12:19）对那些被人得罪的信徒，这是极大的安慰！每一件得罪我们的事都终将受到惩罚。

耶稣有一个好消息，得罪我们的人如果悔改，并且也寻求饶恕，那么他的罪债已由在十字架上的耶稣偿还了。耶稣来到世上，是为了背负人类一切罪过带来的惩罚，好叫凡信靠祂的人都得拯救。

有人得罪我们时，我们可能会这样想：“我希望那个伤害我的人受到惩罚。我希望他们受罚，而不是基督。”然而，我们也需要记着，我们也曾得罪很多人，基督同样也背负了针对我们罪过的惩罚，并偿还了我们的罪债。

Few teachings of Jesus are more difficult to follow than this instruction to turn the other cheek. When we are wronged, it is natural to want to get even. Yet God calls us to turn the other cheek. Is this a call for us to simply let ourselves be bullied？ To never stand up for ourselves？ No, it runs far deeper than that.

When we are wronged, it helps to remember that no wrong will go unpunished. Every sin that is committed will be paid for. "It is mine to avenge," says the Lord, "I will repay" .(see Deuteronomy 32:35; Romans 12:19) This is a great comfort to believers who are being wronged! Every wrong against us will be punished.

The good news of Jesus is that if the wrong that was committed is repented of, and the wrongdoer asks for forgiveness, the wrong is paid for by Christ on the cross. Jesus came into this world in order to take on the punishment for all human sin, so that all who look to him can be saved.

When a wrong is committed against us, we might think, "Well, I want the one who hurt me to be punished. I want them punished, not Christ." But we need to remember that we too have wronged many others and that Christ took on our punishment, paying for our guilt as well.