1 Timothy 4:3

James Moffatt - New Testament

men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving.

Cross References

1 Timothy 4:4

Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed — provided it is eaten with thanksgiving,

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

Romans 14:6

the man who values a particular day does so to the Lord. The eater eats to the Lord, since he thanks God for his food; the non-eater abstains to the Lord, and he too thanks God.

Colossians 2:16

So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths.

1 Corinthians 8:8

Now mere food will not bring us any nearer to God; if we abstain we do not lose anything, and if we eat we do not gain anything.

Colossians 3:17

Indeed, whatever you say or do, let everything be done in dependence on the Lord Jesus, giving thanks in his name to God the Father.

1 Corinthians 7:28

Of course, if you are actually married, there is no sin in that; and if a maid marries, there is no sin in that. (At the same time those who marry will have outward trouble — and I would spare you that.)

Romans 14:3

The eater must not look down upon the non-eater, and the non-eater must not criticize the eater, for God has welcomed him.

Hebrews 13:9

Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food — that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

1 Timothy 2:4

to the God who desires all men to be saved and to attain the knowledge of the Truth.

1 Corinthians 6:13

'Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food'? Yes, and God will do away with the one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

Romans 14:17

The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit;

Matthew 15:36

He took the seven loaves and the fish and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds.

Matthew 14:19

Then he ordered the crowds to recline on the grass, and after taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, blessed them, and after breaking the loaves handed them to the disciples, and the disciples handed them to the crowds.

Acts 27:35

With these words he took a loaf and after thanking God, in presence of them all, broke it and began to eat.

John 6:23

So, as some boats from Tiberias had put in near the spot where they had eaten bread after the Lord's thanksgiving,

Luke 24:30

And as he lay at table with them he took the loaf, blessed it, broke it and handed it to them.

Matthew 15:11

it is not what enters a man's mouth that defiles him, what defiles a man is what comes out of his mouth."

1 Timothy 5:14

So I prefer young widows to marry again, to bear children, to look after their households, and not to afford our opponents any chance of reviling us.