Romans 12

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 quotation from Deut 32:35 says the Lord. 20 But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by**Here "by" is supplied as a component of the participle ("doing") which is understood as means doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon his head."*A quotation from Prov 25:21–2221 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.