Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Parallel translations
- WEB Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
- BSB So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
- NKJV Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
- NASB Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all things for the glory of God.
- NLT So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
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Quick answer
Whatever believers do, even eating and drinking, should be done for God's glory. God's glory is the governing aim of all of life.
Overview
Paul summarizes his entire discussion with a sweeping principle: every act, however ordinary, is to glorify God. This lifts mundane matters of food into the realm of worship and provides the ultimate criterion for using Christian liberty. Living for God's glory unites the believer's whole life under his lordship and reflects the chief end for which we are redeemed in Christ.
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- Col 3:17And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
- Col 3:23And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
- 1 Pet 4:11If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
- Deut 12:7And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
- Deut 12:18But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
- Zech 7:5–6Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
- Deut 12:12And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
- Luke 11:41But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
- Neh 8:16–18So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
- 1 Cor 7:34There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
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