1 Timothy 4:4

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

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Acts 10:15

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

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Acts 21:25

But as for the Gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication.”

Romans 14:14

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

Romans 14:20

Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for you to make others fall by what you eat;

Romans 14:6

Those who observe the day, observe it in honor of the Lord. Also those who eat, eat in honor of the Lord, since they give thanks to God; while those who abstain, abstain in honor of the Lord and give thanks to God.

1 Corinthians 10:23

“All things are lawful,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience,

1 Corinthians 10:26

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

1 Corinthians 10:30

If I partake with thankfulness, why should I be denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he;

1 Timothy 4:3

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