> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://amemamem.com.br/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Other Face - URL: https://amemamem.com.br/en/the-other-face/ - Published: 2026-08-27T11:34:53.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-09T01:05:26.000Z - Description: Which face do we present after receiving evil? - Author: Airton Humber - Tags: #en, #de-a-outra-face Jesus said: **“If anyone strikes you on one cheek, offer him the other also.”** Perhaps we have heard these words many times only as a command not to strike back. But there may be a very beautiful image hidden here. **Which face do we present after receiving evil?** --- ## As in a mirror Paul wrote: **“Now we see as in a mirror, obscurely; then we will see face to face.”** Today we see only in part. But Paul also says that, beholding the glory of the Lord, we are: **“transformed into the same image, from glory to glory.”** And he speaks still of the: **“knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”** Mirror. Image. Face. Transformation. Perhaps these words can help us look in another way at what Jesus taught when he spoke of the **other face**. --- ## Which face do I reflect? Someone presents me with anger. If I give back anger, I become their mirror. Someone presents me with contempt. If I give back contempt, their face begins to appear in me. Someone wounds me. If I give back the wound, what I received has simply found in me a way to go on. **The face of the one who wounded me determined the face I presented to him.** But it does not have to be this way. This is what we saw as we contemplated the fruit of the Spirit: love produces joy, peace and patience. When evil comes, kindness can surround it; goodness can answer with good; faithfulness remains on that path; gentleness goes on transforming us; and self-control reaches even our tongue. Then something changes. I receive a face. **But I can offer another.** --- ## The face of Christ Paul calls Christ the **image of God** and speaks of the **glory of God in the face of Christ**. And he says that we are being transformed: **“into the same image, from glory to glory.”** Perhaps offering the other face is also not allowing the image of the one who wounded me to be reproduced in me. I do not have to become like what I received. I can keep contemplating another face. And, as I contemplate, I am being transformed. **From glory to glory.** --- ## Love remains There is one more very beautiful thing. The phrase **“now we see as in a mirror, obscurely”** appears in the very chapter where Paul speaks of love. Of the love that is patient and kind. Of the love that: **“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”** Perhaps it is precisely this love that allows us to keep offering another face when the first was wounded. Love receives what came from the other, but does not have to give back their image. **Love remains.** --- Today we still see as in a mirror, obscurely. We still know in part. Perhaps what we reflect is also imperfect. But when someone presents us with the face of anger, of contempt or of evil, we no longer have to simply give it back like a mirror. **We can offer another face.** Perhaps still fragile. Perhaps still obscure. But a face that begins, little by little, to reflect something of the one we contemplate. John wrote: **“No one has ever seen God.”** And yet: **“If we love one another, God remains in us.”** Perhaps we do not yet see clearly. But when love becomes sensitive to the other, something of the invisible God begins to appear among us. **And perhaps, in that other face, someone can behold, still as in a mirror, something of the face of Christ.** --- **Bible references:** Matthew 5:39; 1 Corinthians 13:4–13; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 4:4–6; Colossians 1:15; 1 John 4:12. --- **Related articles:** [The goodness of the Lord](https://amemamem.com.br/bondade-do-senhor/) [We see obscurely](https://amemamem.com.br/vemos-obscuramente/)