1 Timothy 4:3

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

1 Timothy 4:4

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

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Romans 14:6

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

Colossians 2:16

Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in respect of a festival day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths,

1 Corinthians 8:8

But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall we have the more; nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less.

Genesis 9:3

And every thing that moveth and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:

Colossians 3:17

All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you.

Romans 14:3

Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats; which have not profited those that walk in them.

1 Timothy 2:4

Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meat for the belly, and the belly for the meats; but God shall destroy both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Matthew 15:36

And taking the seven loaves and the fishes, and giving thanks, he brake, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the people.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

And every man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.

Matthew 14:19

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

Acts 27:35

And when he had said these things, taking bread, he gave thanks to God in the sight of them all; and when he had broken it, he began to eat.

John 6:23

But other ships came in from Tiberias; nigh unto the place where they had eaten the bread, the Lord giving thanks.

Luke 24:30

And it came to pass, whilst he was at table with them, he took bread, and blessed, and brake, and gave to them.

1 Samuel 9:13

As soon as you come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he go up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat till he come: because he blesseth the victim; and afterwards they eat that are invited. Now therefore go up, for to-day you shall find him.

Matthew 15:11

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

1 Timothy 5:14

I will therefore that the younger should marry, bear children, be mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil.