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22For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

Proverbs 25:22

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.

  • And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-22)

By this it appears that, however the scribes and Pharisees had corrupted the law, not only the commandment of loving our brethren, but even that of loving our enemies, was not only a new, but also an old commandment, an Old-Testament commandment, though our Saviour has given it to us with the new enforcement of his own great example in loving us when we were enemies. Observe, 1. How we must expres…

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