1 Timothy 4:3

Legacy Standard Bible

who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God created to be shared in with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Cross References

Genesis 9:3

Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; as with the green plant, I give all to you.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Here is what I have seen to be good, which is beautiful: to eat, to drink, and to see good in all one’s labor in which he labors under the sun during the few days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

Daniel 11:37

He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above them all.

Matthew 14:19

And ordering the crowds to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food. And breaking the loaves, He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds,

Matthew 15:11

It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

Matthew 15:36

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

Luke 24:30

And it happened that when He had reclined at the table with them, He took the bread and blessed it, and after breaking it, He was giving it to them.

John 6:23

Other small boats came from Tiberias near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

Acts 27:35

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

Romans 14:3

The one who eats must not view the one who does not eat with contempt, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who eats, for God accepted him.

Romans 14:6

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

1 Corinthians 6:13

Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But food will not commend us to God. We neither lack if we do not eat, nor abound if we do eat.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore, no one is to judge you in food and drink, or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day—

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you do in word or deed, do all 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

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore, I want younger widows to get married, bear children, keep house, and give the enemy no opportunity for reviling,

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled, for the sexually immoral and adulterers God will judge.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

1 Samuel 9:13

As soon as you enter the city you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat, for the people will not eat until he comes because he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. So now, go up for you will find him at once.”