1 Timothy 4:3

The Coming Apostasy

² that in hypocrisy shall speak lies; having their conscience seared as with a hot iron; ³ men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. ⁴ For everything that God created is good, and nothing is to be refused, if it is received with thanksgiving,

Abstain from

Give Thanks

God Created

God Made

Have Faith

Know the Truth

Knowledge of the Truth

Received with Thanksgiving

Romans 14:6

He that observes the day, let him observe it unto the Lord; and he that does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He that eats, eats unto the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, unto the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

Genesis 9:3

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green grass I have given you all things.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be honourable in all and the bed undefiled; but the fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Colossians 2:16

Let no one therefore judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or of the new moon or of the sabbath days,

Daniel 11:37

Neither shall he care for the God of his fathers, nor the love of women, nor care for any god, for he shall magnify himself above all.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have affliction in the flesh, but I forbear you.

1 Corinthians 7:36-39

But if anyone thinks it uncomely regarding his daughter, if she passes the bloom of life, and need so requires, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But food does not make us more acceptable unto God; for neither if we eat are we the better, neither if we eat not are we the worse.

Colossians 3:17

And whatever ye do whether in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the God and Father by him.

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything that God created is good, and nothing is to be refused, if it is received with thanksgiving,

Genesis 1:29-30

And God said, Behold, I have given you every grass bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food.

1 Samuel 9:13

As soon as you are come into the city, ye shall straightway find him before he goes up to the high place to eat, for the people will not eat until he comes because he must bless the sacrifice, and afterwards those that are invited eat. Now therefore go up, for about this time ye shall find him.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold therefore the good which I have seen: that good is to eat and to drink and to enjoy of the good of all his labour that he takes under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him; for it is his portion.

Matthew 14:19

And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass and took the five loaves and the two fishes; and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

Matthew 15:36

And he took the seven loaves and the fishes and gave thanks and broke them and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

Luke 24:30

And it came to pass as he sat at the table with them, he took bread and blessed it and broke and gave to them.

John 6:23

(but other boats came from Tiberias near unto the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks);

John 8:31-32

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye shall be my disciples indeed;

Acts 10:13-15

And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter, kill and eat.

Acts 27:35

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

Romans 14:3

Let not him that eats despise him that does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him that eats; for God has raised him up.

Romans 14:17

for the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 10:30-31

For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

Colossians 2:20-23

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites,

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to saving health through the sanctification of the Spirit and faith in the truth,

1 Timothy 2:4

who desires that all men be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not taken out of the way with diverse and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with foods which have not profited those that have been occupied with them.