13 If you owe aught to any man and cannot pay; or if a man shall claim a greater sum than is his due, it is not well that you dispute his claims.
14 Resistance is the sire of anger; there is no mercy and no reason in a wrathful man.
15 I tell you it is better far to suffer loss than go to law, or call upon the courts of men to judge of right and wrong.
16 The law of carnal man would say, Eye for eye and tooth for tooth; resist encroachment on your rights.
17 But this is not the law of God. The Holy Breath would say, Resist not him who would deprive you of your goods.
18 He who would take your coat by force is still a brother man and you should gain his heart, which by resistance cannot be done;
19 Give him your coat and offer him still more and more; in time the man will rise above the brute; you will have saved him from himself.
20 Refuse not him who calls for help and give to him who asks to borrow aught.
21 And if a man shall strike you in a fitful, or an angry way, it is not well to smite him in return.
22 Men call him coward who will not fight and thus defend his rights; but he is much the greater man who is assailed, is smitten and does not smite;