1 Timothy 4:3

English Majority Text Version

forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.

Cross References

Matthew 14:19

And commanding the crowds to recline on the grass, taking the five loaves of bread and the two fish, looking up to heaven, He blessed, and breaking them, He gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the crowds.

Matthew 15:11

Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."

Matthew 15:36

And He took the seven loaves and the fish, having given thanks, He broke them, and gave them to His disciples; and the disciples gave to the crowd.

Luke 24:30

Now it came to pass, as He was reclining to eat with them, having taken bread, He blessed and broke it, and He gave it to them.

John 6:23

however, other boats came from Tiberias, near the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks--

Acts 27:35

And having said these things and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and having broken it, he 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 Spirit.

Romans 14:3

Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.

Romans 14:6

He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he that does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. And he that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he that does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and he gives thanks to God.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both this stomach and these foods. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But even if you should marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin should marry, she has not sinned. But such will have trouble in the flesh, and I would spare you.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore do not let anyone judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or of a new moon or of sabbaths,

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you may do in word or deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

1 Timothy 2:4

who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 4:4

Because every creature of God is good, and not one is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving,

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore I desire that the younger widows to marry, to bear children, to manage the house, to give no opportunity to the adversary because of reproach.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away with various and strange doctrines. For it is good for the heart to be established by grace, not by foods, by which those having walked were not profited.