Proverbs 25:21

World English Bible (2000)

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:4-5 : 4 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. 5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.
  • Matt 5:44 : 44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
  • Rom 12:20-21 : 20 Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head." 21 Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
  • Prov 24:17 : 17 Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;
  • 2 Chr 28:15 : 15 The men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, dressed them, gave them sandals, and gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.
  • Luke 10:33-36 : 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, 34 came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.' 36 Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?"
  • 2 Kgs 6:22 : 22 He answered, "You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 12:19-21
    3 verses
    88%

    19 Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."

    20 Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."

    21 Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

  • Prov 25:22
    81%

    22 for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.

  • Job 22:7
    75%

    7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Matt 5:42-44
    3 verses
    73%

    42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

    43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'

    44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

  • Matt 25:35
    72%

    35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

  • Matt 25:42
    72%

    42 for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

  • Exod 23:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

    5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

  • Isa 58:10
    71%

    10 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;

  • Prov 11:25
    71%

    25 The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

  • Ps 80:5
    71%

    5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

  • Matt 25:37
    71%

    37 "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?

  • Prov 22:9
    71%

    9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

  • Luke 6:35
    70%

    35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

  • Prov 24:17
    70%

    17 Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

  • Luke 6:27
    70%

    27 "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

  • Deut 28:48
    69%

    48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.

  • Prov 25:17
    69%

    17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

  • 2 Kgs 6:22
    69%

    22 He answered, "You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master."

  • 1 Sam 24:19
    69%

    19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.

  • Isa 58:7
    69%

    7 Isn't it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

  • Prov 25:20
    69%

    20 As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

  • Luke 6:29-31
    3 verses
    69%

    29 To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.

    30 Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

    31 "As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

  • Prov 23:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:

    7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

  • Ps 7:4
    68%

    4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

  • Prov 3:30
    68%

    30 Don't strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

  • Matt 5:40
    68%

    40 If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.

  • Prov 24:29
    68%

    29 Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."

  • Prov 23:2
    68%

    2 put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

  • Isa 21:14
    68%

    14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

  • Prov 6:30
    68%

    30 Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

  • Job 20:23
    68%

    23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

  • Mark 9:41
    68%

    41 For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ's, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

  • Prov 16:7
    68%

    7 When a man's ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

  • Ezek 18:16
    68%

    16 neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

  • Ezek 18:7
    68%

    7 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

  • Exod 22:5
    67%

    5 "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

  • Ps 55:12
    67%

    12 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

  • 2 Thess 3:15
    67%

    15 Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

  • 1 Kgs 22:27
    67%

    27 Say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace."'"

  • Isa 1:19
    67%

    19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

  • Matt 10:42
    67%

    42 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."