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

He will not show regard for the gods of his fathers, the god longed for by women, or for any other god, because he will magnify himself above all.

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

To abstain

One who eats must not look down on one who does not eat, and one who does not eat must not criticize one who does, because God has accepted him.

Food will not make us acceptable to God. We are not inferior if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.

If you died with the Messiah to the elemental forces of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:

Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by foods, since those involved in them have not benefited.

With

For everything created by God is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

If you go quickly, you can catch up with him before he goes to the high place to eat. The people won’t eat until he comes because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests can eat. Go up immediately—you can find him now.”

Then He commanded the crowds to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed them. He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

He took the seven loaves and the fish, and He gave thanks, broke them, and kept on giving them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

It was as He reclined at the table with them that He took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.

Some boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave thanks.

After he said these things and had taken some bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all of them, and when he broke it, he began to eat.

Whoever observes the day, observes it for the honor of the Lord. Whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; and whoever does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat it, yet he thanks God.

If I partake with thanks, why am I slandered because of something I give thanks for?

And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

Believe

who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word,

you really are My disciples.

But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

General references

God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”

If the man with the discharge spits on anyone who is clean, he is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

A truthful witness rescues lives,
but one who utters lies is deceitful.

His disciples said to Him, “If the relationship of a man with his wife is like this, it’s better not to marry!”

“Don’t handle, don’t taste, don’t touch”?