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 shall not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desires of women. Yea, he shall not care for any God, for he shall magnify himself above all.

But and if thou take a wife, thou sinnest not. Likewise if a virgin marry, she sinneth not. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in their flesh: but I saver you.

Let wedlock be had in price in all points, and let the chamber be undefiled: for whore keepers and adulterers God will judge.

To abstain

Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not. And let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth. For God hath received him.

Meat maketh us not acceptable to God: Neither if we eat are we the better: Neither if we eat not are we the worse.

Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from ordinances of the world: Why as though ye yet lived in the world, are ye led with traditions of them that say

Be not carried about with divers and strange learning. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, and not with meats, which have not profited them that have had their pastime in them.

With

For all the creatures of God are good: and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

When ye be come into the city, so shall you find him, yer he go up to the hill to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he must bless the offering. And then eat they that be bidden to the feast. Now therefore get you up for even now shall ye find him."

And he commanded the people to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.

And took the seven loaves, and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.

And it came to pass as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it unto them.

Howbeit, there came other ships from Tiberias, nigh unto the place where they ate bread, when the Lord had blessed.

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

He that observeth one day more than another, doth it for the Lord's pleasure. And he that observeth not one day more than another, doth it to please the Lord, also. He that eateth, doth it to please the lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, eateth not to please the Lord withal, and giveth God thanks.

For if I take my part with thanks: why am I evil spoken of for that thing wherefore I give thanks?

And all things, whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father by him.

Believe

which will have all men saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, "If ye continue in my words, then are ye my very disciples:

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, for because that God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctifying of the spirit; And through believing the truth:

General references

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Grow and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over all the beasts that move on the earth.

If any such spit upon him that is clean, he must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until even.

A faithful witness delivereth souls; but a liar deceiveth them.

Then said his disciples to him, "If the matter be so between man and wife, then is it not good to marry."

"Touch not; Taste not; Handle not:"