"For every creature of God {is} good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:" — 1 Timothy 4:4

1 Timothy 4:4 · KJV

“For every creature of God {is} good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:”

— 1 Timothy 4:4

Forbidding to marry, {and commanding} to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Verse 5

For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

1 Timothy 4 — Context

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Forbidding to marry, {and commanding} to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

For every creature of God {is} good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

Cross References

Romans 14:20

For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed {are} pure; but {it is} evil for that man who eateth with offence.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, {that} eat, asking no question for conscience sake:

Romans 14:14

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that {there is} nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him {it is} unclean. {unclean: Gr. common}

1 Corinthians 10:23

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. {expedient: or, profitable}

Acts 21:25

As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written {and} concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from {things} offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

Acts 11:7-9

And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.

1 Timothy 4:3

Forbidding to marry, {and commanding} to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Acts 15:20-21

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and {from} fornication, and {from} things strangled, and {from} blood.