1 Timothy 4:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Who forbid people to marry and [teach them] to abstain from [certain kinds of] foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and have [an increasingly clear] knowledge of the truth.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

Common English Bible

³ They will prohibit marriage and eating foods that God created—and he intended them to be accepted with thanksgiving by those who are faithful and have come to know the truth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ prohibiting marriage, abstaining from foods, which God has created to be accepted with thanksgiving by the faithful and by those who have understood the truth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful, and by them that have known the truth.

1 Timothy 4:3 Cross References

Genesis 9:3

Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour, wherein he laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for this is his portion.

Daniel 11:37

Neither shall he regard the gods his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

Matthew 14:19

And he commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

Matthew 15:11

Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.

Matthew 15:36

and he took the seven loaves and the fishes; and he gave thanks and brake, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

Luke 24:30

And it came to pass, when he had sat down with them to meat, he took the bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.

John 6:23

(howbeit there came boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks):

Acts 27:35

And when he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all: and he brake it, and began to eat.

Romans 14:17

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Romans 14:3

Let not him that eateth set at nought him that eateth not; and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

Romans 14:6

He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord: and he that eateth, eateth unto the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, unto the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

1 Corinthians 7:28

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But meat will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

Colossians 2:16

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

Colossians 3:17

And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

1 Timothy 2:4

who willeth that all men should be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:

1 Timothy 5:14

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give none occasion to the adversary for reviling:

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be had in honour among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be stablished by grace; not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.

1 Samuel 9:13

as soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for at this time ye shall find him.