If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink—an exhortation to show kindness to enemies, establishing that meeting their needs transcends enmity. The parallelism (hungry/food, thirsty/water) emphasizes concrete meeting of needs. The theological significance involves the principle that love of enemies is a requirement of wisdom.

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