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 you do marry, there is no sin in that. And if a girl marries, it is no sin. But those who marry will have worldly trouble, which I would like to spare you.

Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.

To abstain

The man who will eat anything must not look down on the man who abstains from some things, and the man who abstains from them must not criticize the one who does not, for God has accepted him.

But food is not going to affect our standing with God. We are none the worse if we do not eat it, and none the better if we do.

If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like

You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.

With

For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving,

Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and he took the five loaves and the two fish and looked up to heaven and blessed them, and he broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to the disciples and they gave them to the people.

and he took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks and he broke them in pieces and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.

And when he took his place with them at table, he took the bread and blessed it and broke it in pieces and handed it to them.

But some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where they had eaten the bread after Jesus had given thanks for it.

With these words he took some bread and after thanking God for it before them all, he broke it in pieces and began to eat it.

The man who observes the day does it in the Lord's honor. The man who eats does it in the Lord's honor, for he gives God thanks, and the man who abstains does it in the Lord's honor, and gives him thanks.

If I give thanks for what I eat, why should I be denounced for eating what I give thanks over?

And whatever you have to say or do, do it all as followers of the Lord Jesus, and offer your thanksgiving to God the Father through him.

Believe

who wants all men to be saved and to come to know the truth.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth,

General references

The disciples said to him, "If that is a man's relation to his wife, it is better not to marry!"

"You must not handle," "You must not taste," "You must not touch"??22 referring to things that are all meant to be used up and destroyed? This is to follow mere human rules and regulations.