Romans 14:17

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

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

By “the kingdom of God” Paul means the church, in which God reigns.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

Quomodo ergo esuriunt, et sitiunt, et camis patiuntur affectiones, et alia, quae non patietur, qui per Christum accepit perfectam, quae speratur, resurrectionem? Quin etiam ii, qui colunt idola, a cibis et venere abstinent. "Non est "autem, inquit, "regnum Dei cibus est potus.". Atqui hic ipse exclamavit: "Non est regnum Dei esca et potus: "neque vero abstinentia a vino et carnibus; "sed justitia, et pax, et gaudium in Spiritu sancto."

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

He who eats of this meal, the best of all, will possess the kingdom of God, fixing his gaze on the holy assembly of love, the heavenly church.

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Cyprian of Carthage

AD 258

Also to the Romans: "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit."

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

The kingdom of God is not meat It does not consist in eating, nor in abstaining, both which may be done without sin, but in justice, peace (Witham)

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

And if he has "delivered you the keys of the meat-market "permitting the eating of "all things "with a view to establishing the exception of "things offered to idols; "still he has not included the kingdom of God in the meat-market: "For "he says, "the kingdom of God is neither meat nor drink; "

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