{"id":438,"date":"2008-12-08T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2022-03-28T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T19:40:16","slug":"romans-1219-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Romans 12:19-21"},"content":{"rendered":"

19\u00a0<\/sup>Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, \u201cVengeance<\/span> is Mine, I will repay,\u201d<\/span> says the Lord.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

20\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore <\/span>\u201cIf your enemy is hungry, feed him; i<\/span><\/span>f he is thirsty, give him a drink; f<\/span><\/span>or in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

21\u00a0<\/sup>Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

avenge not \u2014 tied to verse 18<\/span><\/a>.<\/h3>\n

The wrath of God in Romans (1:18<\/span><\/a>; 2:5<\/span><\/a>, 8<\/span><\/a>; 3:5<\/span><\/a>; 4:15<\/span><\/a>; 5:9<\/span><\/a>; 9:22<\/span><\/a>). It is God’s prerogative, leave it to Him.<\/h3>\n

Proverbs 20:22 \u2014 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and He shall save thee.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Proverbs 24:29 \u2014 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Showing kindness to an enemy may lead to his repentance and destroy him as an enemy.<\/h3>\n

The quote is from Proverbs 25:21-22 \u2014 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

19\u00a0Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, \u201cVengeance is Mine, I will repay,\u201d says the Lord. 20\u00a0Therefore \u201cIf your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6691,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/6691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}