1 Timothy 4:4

Modern English Version

For everything created by God is good, and not to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving,

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Acts 10:15

The voice spoke to him a second time: “What God has cleansed, do not call common.”

Acts 15:29

Abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

Acts 21:25

As for the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they should observe no such thing, except that they abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood.”

Romans 14:14

I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Romans 14:20

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is evil for the man who causes someone to fall by what he eats.

Romans 14:6

He who observes the day observes it for the Lord, and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one who does not eat, in honor of the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.

1 Corinthians 10:23

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things edify.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

1 Corinthians 10:26

for “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”

1 Corinthians 10:30

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks?

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the rock; His work is perfect; for all His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness and without injustice; righteous and upright is He.

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.