Romans 14:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Romans 14:17

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

Kingdom

Is

1 Corinthians 8:8

Colossians 2:16

Hebrews 13:9

But

2 Peter 1:1

General references

Romans 12:18

1 Corinthians 4:20

Ephesians 4:3

Bible References

Kingdom

and saying, "Repent! For the kingdom of heaven is near."

But as your first duty keep on looking for His standard of doing right, and for His will, and then all these things will be yours besides.

But one of the fellow-guests heard this, and said to Him, "Happy will be the man who is fortunate enough to be at the feast in the kingdom of God."

Now, when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them, "The kingdom of God is not coming with visible display,

Jesus answered him, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever see the kingdom of God, unless he is born from above."

for the kingdom of God does not consist in talking but in doing.

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have a share in the kingdom of God? Stop being misled; people who are sexually immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or guilty of unnatural sexual vice

to live lives worthy of God who calls you into His kingdom and His glory.

Is

Food will never bring us near to God. We are no worse if we do not eat it; we are no better if we do.

Stop letting anyone pass judgment on you in matters of eating and drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly feasts or sabbaths.

You must stop being carried away with varied and strange teachings. For it is a good thing for the heart to be strengthened by God's spiritual strength, not by special kinds of food, from which those adhering to them have gotten no good.

But

But as your first duty keep on looking for His standard of doing right, and for His will, and then all these things will be yours besides.

So you owe it all to Him through union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom, our means of right standing, our consecration, and our redemption,

He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.

and be actually in union with Him, not having a supposed right standing with God which depends on my doing what the law commands, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the real right standing with God which originates from Him and rests on faith.

Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ have obtained the same precious faith that we have:

General references

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with everybody.

for the kingdom of God does not consist in talking but in doing.

continuing with eager earnestness to maintain the unity of the Spirit through the tie of peace.