1 Timothy 4:3

Good News Translation

Such people teach that it is wrong to marry and to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten, after a prayer of thanks, by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.

Cross References

Genesis 9:3

Now you can eat them, as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Here is what I have found out: the best thing we can do is eat and drink and enjoy what we have worked for during the short life that God has given us; this is our fate.

Daniel 11:37

The king will ignore the god his ancestors served, and also the god that women love. In fact, he will ignore every god, because he will think he is greater than any of them.

Matthew 14:19

He ordered the people to sit down on the grass; then he took the five loaves and the two fish, looked up to heaven, and gave thanks to God. He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.

Matthew 15:11

It is not what goes into your mouth that makes you ritually unclean; rather, what comes out of it makes you unclean.”

Matthew 15:36

Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, gave thanks to God, broke them, and gave them to the disciples; and the disciples gave them to the people.

Luke 24:30

He sat down to eat with them, took the bread, and said the blessing; then he broke the bread and gave it to them.

John 6:23

Other boats, which were from Tiberias, came to shore near the place where the crowd had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

Acts 27:35

After saying this, Paul took some bread, gave thanks to God before them all, broke it, and began to eat.

Romans 14:17

For God's Kingdom is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of the righteousness, peace, and joy which the Holy Spirit gives.

Romans 14:3

The person who will eat anything is not to despise the one who doesn't; while the one who eats only vegetables is not to pass judgment on the one who will eat anything; for God has accepted that person.

Romans 14:6

Those who think highly of a certain day do so in honor of the Lord; those who will eat anything do so in honor of the Lord, because they give thanks to God for the food. Those who refuse to eat certain things do so in honor of the Lord, and they give thanks to God.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Someone else will say, “Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food.” Yes; but God will put an end to both. The body is not to be used for sexual immorality, but to serve the Lord; and the Lord provides for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you do marry, you haven't committed a sin; and if an unmarried woman marries, she hasn't committed a sin. But I would rather spare you the everyday troubles that married people will have.

1 Corinthians 8:8

Food, however, will not improve our relation with God; we shall not lose anything if we do not eat, nor shall we gain anything if we do eat.

Colossians 2:16

So let no one make rules about what you eat or drink or about holy days or the New Moon Festival or the Sabbath.

Colossians 3:17

Everything you do or say, then, should be done in the name of the Lord Jesus, as you give thanks through him to God the Father.

1 Timothy 2:4

who wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the truth.

1 Timothy 4:4

Everything that God has created is good; nothing is to be rejected, but everything is to be received with a prayer of thanks,

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would prefer that the younger widows get married, have children, and take care of their homes, so as to give our enemies no chance of speaking evil of us.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you from the right way. It is good to receive inner strength from God's grace, and not by obeying rules about foods; those who obey these rules have not been helped by them.