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 have no respect for the gods of his fathers or for the god desired by women; he will have no respect for any god: for he will put himself on high over all.

If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

To abstain

Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.

But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

With

Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:

When you come into the town you will see him straight away, before he goes up to the high place for the feast: the people are waiting for his blessing before starting the feast, and after that the guests will take part in it. So go up now and you will see him.

And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

And when he was seated with them at table, he took the bread, and said words of blessing and, making division of it, he gave it to them.

Some other boats, however, came from Tiberias near to the place where they had taken the bread after the Lord had given praise.

And when he had said this and had taken bread, he gave praise to God before them all, and took a meal of the broken bread.

He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

But if I give praise to God for the food which I take, let no man say evil of me for that reason.

And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.

Believe

Whose desire is that all men may have salvation and come to the knowledge of what is true.

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

General references

And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

And if liquid from the mouth of the unclean man comes on to him who is clean, then he is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

A true witness is the saviour of lives; but he who says false things is a cause of deceit.

The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.

Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,