1 Timothy 4:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Forbidding

Daniel 11:37

1 Corinthians 7:28

Hebrews 13:4

To abstain

With

Believe

1 Timothy 2:4

John 8:31

2 Thessalonians 2:13

General references

Colossians 2:21

Bible References

Forbidding

And he will not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women; nor regard any +god: for he will magnify himself above all.

But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

To abstain

Let not him that eats make little of him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.

But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?

Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by them.

With

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;

As soon as ye come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people eat not until he has come, because he blesses the sacrifice; afterwards they eat that are invited. And now go up; for this very day shall ye find him.

And having commanded the crowds to recline upon the grass, having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed: and having broken the loaves, he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.

And it came to pass as he was at table with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken it, gave it to them.

(but other little ships out of Tiberias came near to the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks;)

And, having said these things and taken a loaf, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it began to eat.

He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord. And he that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, it is to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I spoken evil of for what I give thanks for?

And everything, whatever ye may do in word or in deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by him.

Believe

who desires that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.

Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

General references

And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moveth on the earth.

And if he that hath the flux spit upon him that is clean, then he shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.

A true witness delivereth souls; but deceit uttereth lies.

His disciples say to him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch,