So God saw everything that He made, and behold it was very good. So there was evening and there was morning—the sixth day.
1 Timothy 4:4 - Tree of Life Version For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For everything God has created is good, and nothing is to be thrown away or refused if it is received with thanksgiving. American Standard Version (1901) For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving: Common English Bible Everything that has been created by God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected. Catholic Public Domain Version For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected which is received with thanksgiving; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving: |
So God saw everything that He made, and behold it was very good. So there was evening and there was morning—the sixth day.
Again a voice came to him, a second time: “What God has made clean, you must not consider unholy.”
that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. By keeping away from these things, you will do well. Shalom!”
“As for Gentiles who have believed, however, we have written by letter what we decided—for them to abstain from what is offered to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from immorality.”
I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Yeshua, that nothing is unholy in itself; but it is unholy for the one who considers it unholy.
Stop tearing down the work of God for the sake of food. Indeed all things are clean, but wrong for the man who by eating causes stumbling.
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.
“Everything is permitted”—but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permitted”—but not everything builds up.
Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, without raising questions of conscience.
If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I give thanks for?
The Rock—blameless is His work. Indeed, all His ways are just. God of faithfulness without iniquity, righteous and upright is He.
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.