1 Timothy 4:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι πᾶν κτίσμα Θεοῦ καλόν, καὶ οὐδὲν ἀπόβλητον, μετὰ εὐχαριστίας λαμβανόμενον:

Transliteration

Hoti every ktisma of Theou kalon, and nothing apoblēton, meta eucharistias lambanomenon:

Grammar Details

*Hoti*: conjunction - because/for/that
*ktisma*: nominative, neuter, singular - created thing/creature
*Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
*kalon*: nominative, neuter, singular - good/beautiful
*apoblēton*: nominative, neuter, singular - to be rejected/refused
*meta*: preposition + genitive - with
*eucharistias*: genitive, feminine, singular - thanksgiving/gratitude
*lambanomenon*: present, passive, participle, nominative, neuter, singular - being received/taken

Word Meanings

*Hoti*: because/for/that
*ktisma*: created thing/creature/creation
*kalon*: good/beautiful/excellent
*apoblēton*: to be rejected/cast away/refused
*lambanomenon*: being received/taken/accepted

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Classic King James Version text presented with Strong's numbering to link English words to their underlying Hebrew and Greek terms. Prioritizes literal/formal correspondence while enabling original-language word study.

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Reference numbers can disrupt continuous reading
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Referenced Verses

Acts 21:25 : 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.
Rom 14:14 : 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.
Rom 14:20 : 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 Tim 4:3 : 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.
1 Cor 10:23 : 23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
1 Cor 10:25 : 25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
Gen 1:31 : 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Deut 32:4 : 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Acts 11:7-9 : 7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat. 8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth. 9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Acts 15:20-21 : 20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. 21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Acts 15:29 : 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

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