1 Corinthians 10:31

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Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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Ambrosiaster

AD 400

To eat and drink to God’s glory is to eat and drink after giving thanks to the Creator. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

For it is the very extreme of intemperance to confound the times whose uses are discordant. And "whether ye eat or drink, do all to the glory of God"

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Clement Of Rome

AD 99

-restraint of the fear of God, that God may be glorified in everything through our Lord Jesus Christ, through our chaste and holy behaviour. For, "whether we eat, or drink, or do anything else, let us do it as for the glory of God."

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Ignatius of Antioch

AD 108

But it becomes both men and women who marry, to form their union with the approval of the bishop, that their marriage may be according to God, and not after their own lust. Let all things be done to the honour of God. But it becomes both men and women who marry, to form their union with the approval of the bishop, that their marriage may be according to the Lord, and not after their own lust. Let all things be done to the honour of God.

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Jerome

AD 420

Even if I merely stretch forth my hand in almsgiving, I am meditating on the law of God. If I visit the sick, my feet are meditating on the law of God. If I do what is prescribed, I am praying with my whole body what others are praying with their lips. Homilies on the Psalms, Homily

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

Let all the things which you undertake and accomplish have this root and foundation, namely, that they tend to the glory of God… . When Paul said “If you do anything” [“whatever you do”], he has enclosed our whole existence in a single word, desiring that we never perform any act of virtue with an eye to human glory.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

Perceivest thou how from the subject before him, he carried out the exhortation to what was general, giving us one, the most excellent of all aims, that God in all things should be glorified?

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Maximus of Turin

AD 423

He wishes, then, for all our actions to be accomplished with Christ as companion and witness, that we may do good things for him as the author and avoid what is evil for the sake of his fellowship. One who knows that Christ is his companion is ashamed to do evil. In good things, however, Christ is our helper, and in the face of evil things he is our defender.

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Severian of Gabala

AD 425

Do everything with care so that others may glorify God through you and not be scandalized. .

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