1 Timothy 4:4

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Romans 14:20

For the sake of food, do not destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to become a stumbling block by eating;

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat anything sold in the market, without raising questions on grounds of conscience,

Romans 14:14

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; still, it is unclean for someone who thinks it unclean.

1 Corinthians 10:23

“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds up.

Acts 21:25

As for the Gentiles who have come to believe, we sent them our decision that they abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage.”

1 Timothy 4:3

They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Genesis 1:31

God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed—the sixth day.

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock—how faultless are his deeds, how right all his ways! A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he!

Acts 15:29

namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.’” Delegates at Antioch.

Acts 10:15

The voice spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.”

Romans 14:6

Whoever observes the day, observes it for the Lord. Also whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while whoever abstains, abstains for the Lord and gives thanks to God.

1 Corinthians 10:26

for “the earth and its fullness are the Lord’s.”

1 Corinthians 10:30

If I partake thankfully, why am I reviled for that over which I give thanks?