19 Do not take revenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,”[a] says the Lord. 20 But “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by[b] doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon his head.”[c] 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 12:19 A quotation from Deut 32:35
  2. Romans 12:20 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“doing”) which is understood as means
  3. Romans 12:20 A quotation from Prov 25:21–22