1 Timothy 4:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

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  • Rom 14:6 : 6 He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard `it', and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard `it'. He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God.
  • Gen 9:3 : 3 Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 because every creature of God `is' good, and nothing `is' to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,
  • Col 2:16 : 16 Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,
  • 1 Cor 7:28 : 28 But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.
  • 1 Cor 7:36-39 : 36 and if any one doth think `it' to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry. 37 And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well; 38 so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better. 39 A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;
  • 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;
  • 1 Cor 10:30-31 : 30 and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks? 31 Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;
  • Dan 11:37 : 37 And unto the God of his fathers he doth not attend, nor to the desire of women, yea, to any god he doth not attend, for against all he magnifieth himself.
  • Col 2:20-23 : 20 If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances? 21 -- thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle -- 22 which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men, 23 which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.
  • Col 3:17 : 17 and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, `do' all things in the name of the Lord Jesus -- giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.
  • 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth, 14 to which He did call you through our good news, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • 1 Tim 2:4 : 4 who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;
  • Gen 1:29-30 : 29 And God saith, `Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which `is' upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which `is' the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food; 30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which `is' breath of life, every green herb `is' for food:' and it is so.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for `it is' good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;
  • Matt 14:19 : 19 And having commanded the multitudes to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he did bless, and having broken, he gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes,
  • Matt 15:36 : 36 and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he did break, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
  • Luke 24:30 : 30 And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken, he was giving to them,
  • John 6:23 : 23 (and other little boats came from Tiberias, nigh the place where they did eat the bread, the Lord having given thanks),
  • John 8:31-32 : 31 Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, 32 and the truth shall make you free.'
  • Acts 10:13-15 : 13 and there came a voice unto him: `Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.' 14 And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;' 15 and `there is' a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'
  • Acts 27:35 : 35 and having said these things, and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken `it', he began to eat;
  • Rom 14:3 : 3 let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.
  • 1 Sam 9:13 : 13 At your going in to the city so ye do find him, before he doth go up in to the high place to eat; for the people do not eat till his coming, for he doth bless the sacrifice; afterwards they eat, who are called, and now, go up, for at this time ye find him.'
  • Eccl 5:18 : 18 Lo, that which I have seen: `It is' good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it `is' his portion.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;
  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 the meats `are' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body `is' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Tim 4:4-5
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    4because every creature of God `is' good, and nothing `is' to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,

    5for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession.

  • Rom 14:20-22
    3 verses
    73%

    20for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, `are' pure, but evil `is' to the man who is eating through stumbling.

    21Right `it is' not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to `do anything' in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

    22Thou hast faith! to thyself have `it' before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,

  • 1 Thess 4:3-5
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    3for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

    4that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

    5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

  • Titus 1:14
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    14not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

  • 1 Cor 8:8
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    8But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

  • Acts 15:29
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    29to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

  • Heb 13:9-10
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    9with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for `it is' good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;

    10we have an altar, of which to eat they have no authority who the tabernacle are serving,

  • 1 Tim 4:2
    71%

    2in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,

  • Rom 14:2-3
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    2one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

    3let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.

  • Rom 1:23-25
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    23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

    24Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

    25who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13the meats `are' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body `is' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

  • 1 Cor 10:27-28
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    27and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;

    28and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' -- do not eat, because of that one who shewed `it', and of the conscience, for the Lord's `is' the earth and its fulness:

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

  • Acts 15:20
    70%

    20but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

  • 1 Tim 4:7
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    7and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,

  • Col 2:21-23
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    21-- thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle --

    22which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,

    23which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.

  • Rom 14:6
    69%

    6He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard `it', and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard `it'. He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God.

  • Eph 5:4
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    4also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, -- the things not fit -- but rather thanksgiving;

  • 1 Cor 7:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

    6and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

  • 1 Tim 6:3
    69%

    3if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,

  • 1 Tim 6:5
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    5wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

  • Deut 14:3
    69%

    3`Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;

  • Heb 13:4
    68%

    4honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

  • 1 Tim 1:4
    68%

    4nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

  • Acts 21:25
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    25`And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.'

  • 1 Cor 7:1
    68%

    1And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,

  • 1 Cor 6:15
    68%

    15Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!

  • 1 Tim 1:10
    68%

    10whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

  • 1 Cor 8:4
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    4Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol `is' nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

  • Rom 14:14-15
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    14I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing `is' unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one `it is' unclean;

    15and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.

  • 2 Tim 3:5
    67%

    5having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

  • 1 Pet 4:2
    67%

    2no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

  • 1 Tim 4:11
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    11Charge these things, and teach;

  • 1 Tim 2:3
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    3for this `is' right and acceptable before God our Saviour,

  • 1 Cor 10:25
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    25Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,