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

But if you do get married, you have not sinned in doing so. And if a girl gets married, she has not sinned in doing so. But those who do will have trouble in their earthly life, and I am trying to spare you this.

Marriage must be held in honor by all, and the marriage relations kept sacred. Persons who are sexually vicious and immoral God will punish.

To abstain

The man who eats anything must not look down on the man who does not do so, nor must the man who does not do so condemn the man who does, for God has fully accepted him.

Food will never bring us near to God. We are no worse if we do not eat it; we are no better if we do.

If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as,

You must stop being carried away with varied and strange teachings. For it is a good thing for the heart to be strengthened by God's spiritual strength, not by special kinds of food, from which those adhering to them have gotten no good.

With

For everything in God's creation is good, and nothing is to be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving;

After ordering the crowds to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and two fish and looked up to heaven and blessed them; then He broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to the disciples, and they gave them to the people.

and He took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks; then He broke them in pieces, and kept giving the pieces to the disciples, and they to the crowds.

And after He had taken His place at table with them, He took the loaf and blessed it and broke it in pieces and handed it to them.

Other boats from Tiberias had landed near the place where the people ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

After saying this he took some bread and thanked God for it before them all; then he broke it in pieces and began to eat it.

The man who keeps a certain day keeps it for the Lord. The man who eats anything does it for the Lord too, for he gives God thanks. The man who refuses to eat anything does it for the Lord too, and gives God thanks.

If I give thanks and thus partake of food, why am I to be blamed for that for which I give thanks?

And whatever you say or do, let it all be done with reference to the Lord Jesus, and through Him continue to give thanks to God the Father.

Believe

who is ever willing for all mankind to be saved and to come to an increasing knowledge of the truth.

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,

We ought always to be thanking God for you, brothers dearly loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's consecration of you and through your faith in the truth,

General references

The disciples said to Him, "If that is a man's relation to his wife, there is no advantage in getting married."

"You must not handle," "You must not taste," "You must not touch,"