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

Of course, if you are actually married, there is no sin in that; and if a maid marries, there is no sin in that. (At the same time those who marry will have outward trouble ??and I would spare you that.)

Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

To abstain

The eater must not look down upon the non-eater, and the non-eater must not criticize the eater, for God has welcomed him.

Now mere food will not bring us any nearer to God; if we abstain we do not lose anything, and if we eat we do not gain anything.

As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like

Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food ??that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

With

Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed ??provided it is eaten with thanksgiving,

Then he ordered the crowds to recline on the grass, and after taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, blessed them, and after breaking the loaves handed them to the disciples, and the disciples handed them to the crowds.

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

And as he lay at table with them he took the loaf, blessed it, broke it and handed it to them.

So, as some boats from Tiberias had put in near the spot where they had eaten bread after the Lord's thanksgiving,

With these words he took a loaf and after thanking God, in presence of them all, broke it and began to eat.

the man who values a particular day does so to the Lord. The eater eats to the Lord, since he thanks God for his food; the non-eater abstains to the Lord, and he too thanks God.

If one partakes of food after saying a blessing over it, why should one be denounced for eating what one has given thanks to God for?

Indeed, whatever you say or do, let everything be done in dependence on the Lord Jesus, giving thanks in his name to God the Father.

Believe

to the God who desires all men to be saved and to attain the knowledge of the Truth.

So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:

Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;

General references

The disciples said to him, "If that is a man's position with his wife, there is no good in marrying."

"Hands off this!" "Taste not that!" "Touch not this!" ??22 referring to things that perish by being used? These rules are determined by human precepts and tenets;