Romans 14:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Romans 14:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For the kingdom of God - For an explanation of this phrase, see the note at Matthew 3:2 . Here it means that the uniquenesses of the kingdom of God, or of the Church of Christ on earth, do not c...

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• Romans 14:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (17) For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. (17) A general reason, and the foundation of the entire argument: the kingdom of heaven co...

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• Romans 14:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Considerateness instead of Censoriousness. Romans 14:13 . Let us stop judging one another ( cf. Matthew 7:1-5 ); but come rather to this judgment, not to lay a stumbling-block in a brother's wa...

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• Romans 14:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  kingdom of God . App-114. meat, drink . eating, drinking. righteousness. See Romans 1:17 . joy . Compare Galatians 1:5 ; Galatians 1:22 . Holy Ghost . App-101.:14.

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• Romans 14:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17. For the kingdom of God, etc. He now, on the other hand, teaches us, that we can without loss abstain from the use of our liberty, because the kingdom of God does not consist in such thin...

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• Romans 14:17 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1917 PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY ILLUSTRATED Romans 14:17-19 . The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these thing...

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• Romans 14:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For the kingdom of God - That holy religion which God has sent from heaven, and which be intends...

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• Romans 14:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For the kingdom of God is not meat, &c.— "The kingdom of God neither prohibits nor enjoins such things as these, nor is it taken up with such little matters; but the great design of it is to re...

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• Romans 14:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For the kingdom of God - or, as we should say, Religion; i:e., the proper business and b...

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• Romans 14:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Duty of Sympathy and Toleration In chapter Romans 13:12 St. Paul urged his readers, by their expectation of Christ's coming, to avoid the licence and immorality of the heathen. Now he turns...

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• Romans 14:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Meat and drink. — Strictly, eating and drinking. Righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. — By “righteousness and peace” is not here meant imputed righteousness, or justification a...

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• Romans 14:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 29 CHRISTIAN DUTY: MUTUAL TENDERNESS AND TOLERANCE: THE SACREDNESS OF EXAMPLE Romans 14:1-23 BUT him who is weak-we might almost render, him who suffers from weakness, in his faith (in...

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• Romans 14:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Yielding Rights for Others' Sake Romans 14:13-23 We must be careful of one another's faith. Unkind criticism or ridicule, or the strong pressure of our arguments and reasons may impede the divi...

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• Romans 14:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The apostle now turned to discussion of some of the difficulties which may arise in the Christian Church. Dealing with the question of the animals sacrificed to idols he laid down a supreme principle...

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• Romans 14:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. (18) For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men. (19)...

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• Romans 14:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink ,.... Neither the kingdom of glory, nor the ultimate glory and happiness of the saints in the other world, is attained to by any such things; for neither...

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• Romans 14:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Ver. 17. For the kingdom of God, &c. ] That was a swinish saying of Epicurus, that etern...

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• Romans 14:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For the kingdom of God Into which we enter by believing in Christ, and becoming his subjects, or which thereby enters into us, and is set up in our hearts, namely, true religion; is not Does not...

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• Romans 14:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Personal Conscience Toward God In Romans 12:1-21 we have seen instruction in many details of moral conduct. In such cases conscience has no liberty to take any stand but that of truth and honor....

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• Romans 14:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Exhortations to Candour; The Dominion of Christ. A. D.  58.       1 Him that is weak in the faith rec...

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• Romans 14:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This verse contains a new argument to persuade Christians not to strive about meats, or such like things; and that is, that the kingdom of God doth not consist in these, but in weightier matters. B...

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• Romans 14:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Christian Freedom To Be Tempered By Consideration For Their Brothers And Sisters With Regard To Food Fetishes And Sabbath Observance (14:1-23). Paul now deals with the question of whether to obser...

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• Romans 14:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Romans 14:16 . Let not your good be evil spoken of .—Let not Christian liberty be abused by offence given to the weak. Romans 14:17 . The kingdom of God .—What commends us to G...

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• Romans 14:17 - Scofield Reference Notes

  kingdom See ( Galatians 4:9-11 ); ( Colossians 2:20-23 ). ( See Scofield) - ( Matthew 6:33 ). righteousness ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 10:10 ).

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• Romans 14:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Romans 14:17 In this verse of Scripture joy is not the first but the last of three. Joy is the home in which the pilgrim rests; righteousness and peace are the paths by which he reaches it. I. Ri...

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• Romans 14:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Romans 14:1 . Him that is weak in the faith receive ye. The apostolic churches were composed of jews and gentiles. Most of the jews were zealous of the law, and observed the legal distinctions of...

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• Romans 14:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink. God’s kingdom I. The description given of the kingdom of God. 1. The import of the term. Christ’s spiritual kingdom established on earth--His do...

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• Romans 14:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Romans 14:1-45 F. The duty of enlightened Christians towards weak brethren. From moral duties in general of Christians towards each other and towards all the apostle now passes...

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• Romans 14:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Of the abuse of Christian liberty:

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• Romans 14:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 1:30 ; 1 Corinthians 4:20 ; 1 Corinthians 6:9 ; 1 Corinthians 8:8 ; 1 Peter 1:8 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:6 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:12 ; 2 Corinthians 5:21 ; 2 Peter 1:1 ; Acts 13:52 ;...

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• Romans 14:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  For the kingdom of God — That is, true religion, does not consist in external observances. But in righteousness — The image of God stamped on the heart; the love of God and man, accompanied with th...

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