Romans 14:17

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.”

— WEB

“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”

— KJV

“for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”

— ASV

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Cross-references

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Matthew 6:33 "But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well."
Romans 15:13 "Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit."
1 Corinthians 4:20 "For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power."
1 Corinthians 8:8 "But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better."
Galatians 5:22 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,or, faithfulness"
Romans 8:6 "For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;"
1 Thessalonians 2:12 "to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory."
Philippians 3:9 "and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the right…"

Commentary

For the kingdom of God--or, as we should say, Religion; that is, the proper business and blessedness for which Christians are formed into a community of renewed men in thorough subjection to God (compare Co1 4:20). is not meat and drink--"eating and drinking" but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost--a beautiful and comprehensive division of living Christianity. The first--"righteousness"--has respect to God, denoting here "rectitude," in its widest sense (as in Mat 6:33); the second--"peace"--has respect to our neighbors, denoting "concord" among brethren (as is plain from Rom 14:19; compare Eph 4:3; Col 3:14-15); the third--"joy in the Holy Ghost"--has respect to ourselves. This phrase, "joy in the Holy Ghost," represents Christians as so thinking and feeling under the workings of the Holy Ghost, that their joy may be viewed rather as that of the blessed Agent who inspires it than their own (compare Th1 1:6).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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