Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking. It is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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  1. The Master’s Indwelling · Andrew Murray

    Joy in the Holy Ghost cites Romans 14: 17

    Romans 14: 17.—For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and…

  2. The Holy Spirit, or Power from on High · A. B. Simpson

    The Holy Spirit in the Epistle to the Romans cites Romans 14:17

    …the authority and the power of the Holy Ghost. XI. The Spirit of gladness is revealed in Romans 14:17. "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the…

  3. Communion with God · John Owen

    The general consequences of the Holy Ghost's work in believers cites Rom. xiv. 17

    …mourning.” “The kingdom of God is righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost,” Rom. xiv. 17; “Received the word with joy in the Holy Ghost,” 1 Thess. i. 6, — “with joy,” as Peter…

  4. Holy in Christ · Andrew Murray

    Holiness and Happiness cites Rom. xiv. 17

    ‘The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.’—Rom. xiv. 17. ‘The disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Ghost.’—Acts xiii. 52. ‘Then Nehemiah…

  5. Absolute Surrender · Andrew Murray

    O Wretched Man that I am! cites Rom. 14:17

    …there is the liberty of the Holy Spirit. The kingdom of God is “joy in the Holy Spirit” (Rom. 14:17).

  6. The God of All Comfort · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Jehovah cites Romans 14:17

    …matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Romans 14:17), and anyone who has not entered into peace has not yet fully entered into this kingdom.…

  7. The Key Teachings of Elisabeth Elliot · Ochorus Originals

    The Liberty of Obedience cites ROMANS 14:17

    …of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. ROMANS 14:17 This put her somewhat at odds with parts of the world she came from. But her book was not…

  8. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 15 — Three Things Briefly to Be Regarded in Christ cites Rom. 14:17

    …for “the kingdom of God” is “righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost,” (Rom. 14:17). These words briefly teach what the kingdom of Christ bestows upon us. Not being earthly…

  9. The Key Teachings of Jeanne Guyon · Ochorus Originals

    The Kingdom Within cites ROMANS 14:17

    …of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. ROMANS 14:17 She reads the Lord’s words about the kingdom within in two ways. First, the kingdom is…

  10. The Key Teachings of Charles G. Finney · Ochorus Originals

    New Measures and the Anxious Seat cites ROMANS 14:17

    …of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. ROMANS 14:17 His second argument was historical. Much of what the church now takes for granted, he…

  11. At the Master's Feet · Sadhu Sundar Singh

    Heaven and Hell cites Rom. xiv. 17

    …of My Father, which is joy in the Holy Ghost, and they shall reign for ever and ever (Rom. xiv. 17; Rev. xxi. 4; xxii. 5).

  12. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Sermon III cites Rom. xiv. 17

    …and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost, in which the state of grace consisteth! Rom. xiv. 17. If it would be a greater pleasure for you to think of your lands and inheritance (if you…

  13. Selected Sermons of George Whitefield · George Whitefield

    A Preservative Against Unsettled Notions, and Want of Principles, in Regard to Righteousness and Christian Perfection Being a More Particular Answer to Doctor Trapp's Four Sermons Upon the Same Text cites Rom. 14:17

    …And it will be to as little purpose to answer them, with what St. Paul says elsewhere (Rom. 14:17) “The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the…

  14. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Way to the Kingdom cites Rom. 14:17

    …of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” (Rom. 14:17.) 2. “The kingdom of God,” or true religion, “is not meat and drink.” It is well known…

  15. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Joy cites Rom 14:17

    …God made joyful in the house of prayer! Isa 56:6. (3.) It is called the kingdom of God in Rom 14:17, because it is a taste of that which the saints have in the kingdom of God. What is the…

  16. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    Divers and Strange Doctrines cites Rom. xiv. 17

    …of God is not meat and drink.”—“Let no man judge you in meat and drink.” (1 Cor. viii. 8; Rom. xiv. 17; Col. ii. 16.) Nothing shows the fallen nature of man so clearly as the readiness of…

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