1 Timothy 4:3
interdicting marriage; and the use of animal food; which God created for the repast of the faithful, who embrace the truth with thankfulness.
Romans 14:6
he that observes a day, and he that obobserves it not, act both from a sense of duty. he that eats, consisiders it as the bounty of his Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that forbeareth to eat, considers his forbearance as enjoined by his Lord, and giveth God thanks for the rest.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish.
Colossians 2:16
Let no man therefore condemn you for meats or drinks, or in respect of feasts, or new moons, or sabbaths:
1 Corinthians 7:28
not that it is a sin for you to marry; nor is it so if a virgin marry; but they that do, will be troubled for their relations, and that I would prevent.
1 Corinthians 7:36-39
if any man thinks it would be a reflexion upon his manhood to be a stale batchelor, and so ought to marry; let him follow his bent, he is at liberty, let such marry.
1 Corinthians 8:8
meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse.
Colossians 3:17
let your discourse and your actions be all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father by him.
1 Timothy 4:4
for all that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it be receiv'd with thanksgiving:
Matthew 14:19
then giving orders for the company to sit down on the grass, he took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks; then breaking the loaves into pieces, he gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the company: who all of them eat,
Matthew 15:36
then taking the seven loaves, and the fish, he gave thanks, and distributed them, by pieces, to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Luke 24:30
and as he was at table with them, he took bread, and gave thanks, then brake it and gave it to them;
John 6:23
there came other barks from Tiberias, nigh the place where they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks.)
John 8:31-32
Jesus said therefore to those Jews who believed on him, if you adhere to my doctrine, then will you be my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth,
Acts 10:13-15
and a voice said to him, rise, Peter; kill and eat.
Acts 27:35
having said this, he took bread, and gave thanks to God, the whole company present: then he broke it and began to eat,
Romans 14:3
let not him that eateth, despise him that does not; and let not him that refrains, pass censure on him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Romans 14:17
for the gospel dispensation does not consist in meats and drinks, but in piety and peace, and spiritual joy.
1 Corinthians 6:13
"meat is design'd for the belly, and the belly for meat:" true, yet God has design'd both for destruction. now the body is not design'd for licentiousness, but for the glory of the Lord; since the Lord died for the glorification of the body:
1 Corinthians 10:30-31
if I am thankful for what I have, why should I chuse to be evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
Colossians 2:20-23
If then you are dead with Christ, in respect of those shadows of the Jewish state; why do ye, as if you were still in that state, submit to those ordinances?
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
As for you, my brethren, the favourites of the Lord, we are oblig'd to render perpetual thanks to God, for having chosen you from the beginning, in purifying you by his spirit, upon your believing the gospel.
1 Timothy 2:4
who wills that all men be saved, by embracing the truth.
Hebrews 13:9
for the mind is better improv'd by the gospel-dispensation, than by the distinctions about meats, in which some have been so uselesly vers'd.