1 Timothy 4:4

The Text-Critical English New Testament

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

Cross References

Acts 10:15

The voice came to him again a second time: “Do not regard as defiled what God has made clean.”

Acts 15:29

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

Acts 21:25

But as for the Gentiles who have become believers, we have written a letter with our judgment that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from what has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what has been strangled, and from fornication.”

Romans 14:14

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in and of itself, but it is unclean for anyone who considers it to be unclean.

Romans 14:20

Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes another to stumble.

Romans 14:6

He who observes a particular day, observes it in honor of the Lord, while he who abstains from observing a particular day, abstains in honor of the Lord. He who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, for he gives thanks to God, while he who abstains from eating, abstains in honor of the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

1 Corinthians 10:23

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

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, questioning nothing for the sake of conscience,

1 Corinthians 10:26

for “the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.”

1 Corinthians 10:30

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

1 Timothy 4:3

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