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

Neither shall he care for the God of his fathers, nor the love of women, nor care for any god, for he shall magnify himself above all.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have affliction in the flesh, but I forbear you.

Let marriage be honourable in all and the bed undefiled; but the fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

To abstain

Let not him that eats despise him that does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him that eats; for God has raised him up.

But food does not make us more acceptable unto God; for neither if we eat are we the better, neither if we eat not are we the worse.

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites,

Be not taken out of the way with diverse and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with foods which have not profited those that have been occupied with them.

With

For everything that God created is good, and nothing is to be refused, if it is received with thanksgiving,

As soon as you are come into the city, ye shall straightway find him before he goes up to the high place to eat, for the people will not eat until he comes because he must bless the sacrifice, and afterwards those that are invited eat. Now therefore go up, for about this time ye shall find him.

And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass and took the five loaves and the two fishes; and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

And he took the seven loaves and the fishes and gave thanks and broke them and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

And it came to pass as he sat at the table with them, he took bread and blessed it and broke and gave to them.

(but other boats came from Tiberias near unto the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks);

And when he had thus spoken, he took bread and gave thanks to God in presence of them all; and when he had broken it, he began to eat.

He that observes the day, let him observe it unto the Lord; and he that does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He that eats, eats unto the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, unto the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

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

Believe

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

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye shall be my disciples indeed;

But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to saving health through the sanctification of the Spirit and faith in the truth,

General references

And God blessed them, and God said unto 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 air and over every beast that moves upon the earth.

And if the one that has the issue spits upon him that is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.

The true witness delivers souls, but the deceitful one speaks lies.

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

touch not; taste not; handle not?