1 Timothy 4:3

The Coming Apostasy

² through the hypocrisy of liars, who are seared in their conscience, ³ who forbid to marry, and command to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe, and know the truth. ⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be 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 regards the day, to the Lord he regards it; and he that does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord; for he gives God thanks: and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable among all men, and the bed undefiled; but lewd men and adulterers God will judge.

Colossians 2:16

Let no one judge you, therefore, in meat or in drink, or in respect to a feast, or the new moon, or sabbaths,

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:36-39

But if any man thinks he would treat his virgin daughter amiss, should she pass the bloom of life, and it is necessary that it should be so, let him do as he pleases, he does not sin; let them (the suitor and the daughter) marry.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.

Colossians 3:17

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

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving;

Matthew 14:19

And he commanded the multitudes to recline upon the grass: and he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke, and gave the bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the multitudes.

Matthew 15:36

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

Luke 24:30

And it came to pass, while he reclined at table with them, that he took bread and blessed; and he broke, and gave it to them.

John 6:23

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

John 8:31-32

Then said Jesus to those Jews that believed on him: If you continue in my word, you are 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 said this, he took bread, and gave thanks to God before them all, and broke, and began to eat.

Romans 14:3

Let not him that eats, despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not, judge him that eats: for God has received him.

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

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

1 Corinthians 10:30-31

If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of on account of that for which I give thanks?

Colossians 2:20-23

If, then, you have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you submit to ordinances?

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God did, from the beginning, choose you to salvation, by sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth,

1 Timothy 2:4

who is willing that all men should be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried away by various and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be strengthened with grace, not with meats, which have not profited those who were occupied with them.