1 Timothy 4:4

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully;

Cross References

Acts 10:15

Again he was aware of a voice which said--"What God has pronounced 'clean', do not regard as 'defiled'."

Acts 15:29

That you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from impurity. If you guard yourselves against such things, it will be well with you. Farewell.'

Acts 21:25

As to the Gentiles who have become believers in Christ, we have sent our decision that they should avoid food offered to idols, and blood, and the flesh of strangled animals, and impurity."

Romans 14:14

Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is 'defiling in itself.' A thing is 'defiling' only to him who holds it to be so.

Romans 14:20

Do not undo God's work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is 'clean,' yet, if a man eats so as to put a stumbling- block in the way of others, he does wrong.

Romans 14:6

He who observes a day, observes it to the Master's honor. He, again, who eats meat eats it to the Master's honor, for he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains from it abstains from it to the Master's honor, and also gives thanks to God.

1 Corinthians 10:23

Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything does not build up character.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat anything that is sold in the market, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples;

1 Corinthians 10:26

For 'the earth, with all that is in it, belongs to the Lord.'

1 Corinthians 10:30

If, for my part, I take the food thankfully, why should I be abused for eating that for which I give thanks?

1 Timothy 4:3

and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth.