1 Timothy 4:4

Weymouth NT

For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be cast aside, if only it is received with thanksgiving.

Cross References

Acts 10:15

Again a second time a voice was heard which said, »What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.«

Acts 15:29

You must abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear of these things, and it will be well with you. Farewell.«

Acts 21:25

But as for the Gentiles who have accepted the faith, we have communicated to them our decision that they are carefully to abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from blood, from what is strangled, and from fornication.«

Romans 14:14

As one who lives in union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am certain that in its own nature no food is `impure'; but if people regard any food as impure, to them it is.

Romans 14:20

Do not for food's sake be throwing down God's work. All food is pure; but a man is in the wrong if his food is a snare to others.

Romans 14:6

He who regards the day as sacred, so regards it for the Master's sake; and he who eats certain food eats it for the Master's sake, for he gives thanks to God; and he who refrains from eating it refrains for the Master's sake, and he also gives thanks to God.

1 Corinthians 10:23

Everything is allowable, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable, but everything does not build others up.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Anything that is for sale in the meat market, eat, and ask no questions for conscience' sake;

1 Corinthians 10:26

for the earth is the Lord's, and all that it contains.

1 Corinthians 10:30

If, so far as I am concerned, I partake with a grateful heart, why am I to be found fault with in regard to a thing for which I give thanks?«

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.