1 Timothy 4:3

Tree of Life Version

They forbid people to marry; they command people to abstain from foods that God created for the faithful to share with thanksgiving, having come to know the truth.

Cross References

Genesis 9:3

Every crawling thing that is alive will be food for you, as are the green plants—I have now given you everything.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Additionally, everyone to whom God has given riches and wealth, and empowers him to eat from it, to receive his share, and to rejoice in his labor—this is a gift of God.

Daniel 11:37

He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or the one desired by women, nor will he show regard for any god, but will exalt himself above all.

Matthew 14:19

Ordering the crowd to recline on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish; and looking up to heaven, He offered the bracha. After breaking the loaves, He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

Matthew 15:11

It’s not what goes into the mouth that makes the man unholy; but what comes out of the mouth, this makes the man unholy.”

Matthew 15:36

He took the seven loaves and the fish; and after giving thanks, He broke them. And He began giving them to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds.

Luke 24:30

And it happened that when He was reclining at the table with them, He took the matzah , offered a bracha and, breaking it, gave it to them.

John 6:23

Some other boats from Tiberias came close to the place where they had eaten the bread after the Master had given thanks.

Acts 27:35

And when he had said these things, he took bread, gave thanks to God before them all, broke it, and began to eat.

Romans 14:17

for the kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking, but righteousness and shalom and joy in the Ruach ha-Kodesh.

Romans 14:3

Don’t let the one who eats disparage the one who does not eat, and don’t let the one who does not eat judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.

Romans 14:6

The one who observes that day does so to the Lord. The one who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one who abstains, abstains to the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food”—but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such people will have trouble in this fleshly life, and I am trying to spare you.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But food will not bring us before God. We are no worse off if we do not eat and no better off if we do eat.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore, do not let anyone pass judgment on you in matters of food or drink, or in respect to a festival or new moon or Shabbat.

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Yeshua, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

1 Timothy 2:4

He desires all men to be saved and come into the knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 4:4

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

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore, I want the younger widows to get married, have children, manage a household, and give no opportunity to the enemy for slander.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace—not by foods that have not benefited those occupied by them.

1 Samuel 9:13

As soon as you enter the town, you’ll find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat until he comes, because he must first bless the sacrifice—afterward the guests can eat. So now, get up, for you will find him at once.”