Give your enemy a drink.

~Romans 12.20-21 On the contrary:
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Paul repeats Proverbs 25.21-22, using another food analogy to show us the Christlike way to live.

Hungry in sharing the gospel

~I Corinthians 4.10-13

We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly.

Paul uses irony to get readers to see their pride and stop being so judgmental of each other. He speaks of the literal hunger and thirst experienced in his mission "not to shame [them], but to warn [them] as . . . beloved children."