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

1 Corinthians 7:28

Hebrews 13:4

To abstain

With

Believe

1 Timothy 2:4

John 8:31

2 Thessalonians 2:13

General references

Matthew 19:10

Colossians 2:21

Bible References

Forbidding

But if, indeed you may marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin may marry, she has not sinned; but such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

Marriage is honorable among all, and the couch undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

To abstain

Let not the one eating snub the one not eating. Let not the one not eating judge the one eating; for God received him.

But meat will not commend us to God; neither if we eat are we the better; nor if we eat not are we the worse.

If along with Christ you are dead from the elements of the world, why are you dogmatized as living in the world,

Be not carried away with fantastical and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, in which those going round were not profited.

With

Because every creature of God is good, and nothing rejected, being received with thanksgiving:

And commanding the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven, He blessed them; and breaking, gave the bread to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

He took the seven loaves and the fishes; having given thanks, He broke them, and gave to His disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

And it came to pass, while He was reclining with them at the table, taking bread, He blessed it, and breaking it, He gave it to them:

(other ships came from Tiberias near the place where they ate the bread, the Lord having given thanks).

And having spoken these words, and taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and breaking it, began to eat.

The one regarding the day, regards it to the Lord: the one eating, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one not eating, eats not to the Lord, and gives thanks to God.

If I partake with grace, why am I traduced for that over which I give thanks?

and every thing whatsoever you may do, in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Believe

who wishes all men to be saved, and to come to the perfect knowledge of the truth.

Then Jesus said to the Jews, who believed on Him, If you may abide in my word, you are truly my disciples;

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning unto salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth;

General references

His disciples say to Him, If the cause of a man with his wife is thus, it is better not to marry.

Touch not, taste not, handle not,