1 Timothy 4:3

World English Bible (2000)

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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  • Rom 14:6 : 6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.
  • Gen 9:3 : 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
  • Col 2:16 : 16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
  • 1 Cor 7:28 : 28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
  • 1 Cor 7:36-39 : 36 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry. 37 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well. 38 So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better. 39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
  • 1 Cor 10:30-31 : 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks? 31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
  • Dan 11:37 : 37 Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself above all.
  • Col 2:20-23 : 20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, 21 "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch" 22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? 23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
  • Col 3:17 : 17 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
  • 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth; 14 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Tim 2:4 : 4 who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
  • Gen 1:29-30 : 29 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. 30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
  • Matt 14:19 : 19 He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
  • Matt 15:36 : 36 and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
  • Luke 24:30 : 30 It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.
  • John 6:23 : 23 However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
  • John 8:31-32 : 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
  • Acts 10:13-15 : 13 A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat!" 14 But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean." 15 A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."
  • Acts 27:35 : 35 When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.
  • Rom 14:3 : 3 Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.
  • 1 Sam 9:13 : 13 As soon as you have come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he blesses the sacrifice. Afterwards those who are invited eat. Now therefore go up; for at this time you shall find him."
  • Eccl 5:18 : 18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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  • 1 Tim 4:4-5
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    4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

    5 For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

  • Rom 14:20-22
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    20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

    21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

    22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.

  • 1 Thess 4:3-5
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    3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

    4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

    5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

  • Titus 1:14
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    14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

  • 1 Cor 8:8
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    8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

  • Acts 15:29
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    29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."

  • Heb 13:9-10
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    9 Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

    10 We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

  • 1 Tim 4:2
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    2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

  • Rom 14:2-3
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    2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

    3 Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

  • Rom 1:23-25
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    23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

    24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

    25 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • 1 Cor 10:27-28
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    27 But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

    28 But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • Acts 15:20
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    20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

  • 1 Tim 4:7
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    7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

  • Col 2:21-23
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    21 "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch"

    22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

    23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

  • Rom 14:6
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    6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.

  • Eph 5:4
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    4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

  • 1 Cor 7:5-6
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    5 Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

    6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

  • 1 Tim 6:3
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    3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

  • 1 Tim 6:5
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    5 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

  • Deut 14:3
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    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Heb 13:4
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    4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

  • 1 Tim 1:4
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    4 neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith--

  • Acts 21:25
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    25 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."

  • 1 Cor 7:1
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    1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

  • 1 Cor 8:4
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    4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

  • Rom 14:14-15
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    14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

    15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

  • 2 Tim 3:5
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    5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

  • 1 Tim 4:11
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    11 Command and teach these things.

  • 1 Tim 2:3
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    3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;

  • 1 Cor 10:25
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    25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,