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 will not respect the gods of his fathers -- not even the god loved by women. He will not respect any god; he will elevate himself above them all.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.

Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

To abstain

The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

With

For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.

When you enter the town, you can find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people won't eat until he arrives, for he must bless the sacrifice. Once that happens, those who have been invited will eat. Now go on up, for this is the time when you can find him!"

Then he instructed the crowds to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and two fish, and looking up to heaven he gave thanks and broke the loaves. He gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds.

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

When he had taken his place at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.

But some boats from Tiberias came to shore near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

After he said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all, broke it, and began to eat.

The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for the food that I give thanks for?

And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Believe

since he wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

General references

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground."

If the man with a discharge spits on a person who is ceremonially clean, that person must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

A truthful witness rescues lives, but the one who breathes lies brings deception.

The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!"

"Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"