Proverbs 25:21
Good News Translation
If your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them a drink.

New Revised Standard Version
If your enemies are hungry, give them bread to eat; and if they are thirsty, give them water to drink;

Contemporary English Version
If your enemies are hungry, give them something to eat. And if they are thirsty, give them something to drink.

New American Bible
If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat, if thirsty, give something to drink;

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink:

Proverbs 24:17 When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:

Exodus 23:4,5 If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him. . . .

Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:

Luke 10:33-36 But a certain Samaritan, being on his journey, came near him: and seeing him, was moved with compassion: . . .

Romans 12:20,21 But if the enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. . . .

Context
More Proverbs of Solomon
20And one that looseth his garment in cold weather. As vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a very evil heart. As a moth doth by a garment, and a worm by the wood: so the sadness of a man consumeth the heart. 21If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink:22For thou shalt heap hot coals upon his head, and the Lord will reward thee.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:44
But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:

Romans 12:20
But if the enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

Exodus 23:4
If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him.

Exodus 23:5
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him.

2 Kings 6:22
And he said: Thou shalt not kill them: for thou didst not take them with thy sword, or thy bow, that thou mayst kill them: but set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

2 Chronicles 28:15
And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the captives, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and when they had clothed and shod them, and refreshed them with meat and drink, and anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of them, they set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon beasts, and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren, and they returned to Samaria.

Proverbs 25:20
And one that looseth his garment in cold weather. As vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a very evil heart. As a moth doth by a garment, and a worm by the wood: so the sadness of a man consumeth the heart.

Proverbs 25:20
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