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

Bible References

Forbidding

But if you marry, you do not sin and if the virgin marries she does not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh; but I spare you.

Marriage is honorable in all, and married life without blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

To abstain

Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats; for God has accepted him.

But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat not are we worse, nor if we eat are we better.

If therefore you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the world,??21 you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not feel,??22 all which are to perish in the using??ccording to the commandments and instructions of men?

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.

With

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, [but] to be received with thanksgiving;

And commanding the multitudes to sit down on the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and, looking up to heaven, blessed them, and having broken them gave the bread to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

and taking the seven loaves and the fishes, and giving thanks, he broke, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

and when he reclined with them, taking bread, he blessed, and breaking, gave them.

And having said these things, and taken bread, he thanked God before all, and having broken began to eat.

He that observes the day observes it to the Lord, and he that observes not the day observes it not to the Lord. And he that eats eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that eats not eats not to the Lord, and gives God thanks.

If I partake with thanks, why am I blamed for that for which I give thanks?

and whatever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the God [and] Father through him.

Believe

who wishes all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of truth.

Then Jesus said to the Jews who believed on him, If you continue in my word, you are my disciples indeed;

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you to salvation by purification of spirit, and belief of the truth,

General references

The disciples said to him, If the case of a man is thus with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.