1 Timothy 4:3

Modern King James Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 9:3

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herb.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold that which I have seen. it is good and right for one to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he labors under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him; for it is his portion.

Daniel 11:37

He will not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god. For he shall magnify himself above all.

Matthew 14:19

And He commanded the crowd to recline on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to Heaven He blessed and broke, and gave the loaves to His disciples. And the disciples gave to the crowd.

Matthew 15:11

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

Matthew 15:36

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

Luke 24:30

And it happened as He reclined with them, taking the loaf, He blessed it, and breaking it, He gave to them.

John 6:23

(however, other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the loaves, the Lord having given thanks),

Acts 27:35

And saying these things, and taking bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and breaking, 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

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

Romans 14:6

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

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But food does not commend us to God. For neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths.

Colossians 3:17

And everything, whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.

1 Timothy 2:4

who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creation of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving.

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore I want the younger ones to marry, bear children, guide the house, giving no occasion to the adversary because of reproach.

Hebrews 13:4

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

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.

1 Samuel 9:13

As you come to the city, you shall immediately find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat until he comes, because he blesses the feast. Afterwards those who have been invited eat. And now go up, for about this time you shall find him.