Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.
New American Standard Bible
men who
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
They forbid marriage
International Standard Version
They will try to stop people from marrying and from eating certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
A Conservative Version
forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.
American Standard Version
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.
Amplified
who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from [certain kinds of] foods which God has created to be gratefully shared by those who believe and have [a clear] knowledge of the truth.
An Understandable Version
They forbid people to get married and require them to avoid [eating] certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and [fully] know the truth.
Anderson New Testament
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.
Bible in Basic English
Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.
Common New Testament
who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
Daniel Mace New Testament
interdicting marriage; and the use of animal food; which God created for the repast of the faithful, who embrace the truth with thankfulness.
Godbey New Testament
forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth.
Goodspeed New Testament
who forbid people to marry and insist on abstinence from certain kinds of food that God created for men who believe and understand the truth to enjoy and give thanks for.
John Wesley New Testament
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.
Julia Smith Translation
Hindering to marry, to keep from victuals which God created for participation, with thanks, for the faithful and them knowing the truth.
King James 2000
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them who believe and know the truth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
who forbid marrying [and insist on] abstaining from foods that God created for sharing in with thankfulness by those who believe and who know the truth,
Modern King James verseion
forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with giving thanks, of them which believe, and know the truth.
Montgomery New Testament
who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth.
NET Bible
They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
New Heart English Bible
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
Noyes New Testament
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from food which God created to be received with thanksgiving, for those who believe and know the truth.
Sawyer New Testament
who forbid to marry, [command] to abstain from meat, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and those who know the truth.
The Emphasized Bible
Forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from foods which, God, created to be received with thanksgiving by them who believe and personally know the truth;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
prohibiting marriage, and enjoining abstinence from particular meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful, and those who acknowledge the truth.
Twentieth Century New Testament
and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth.
Webster
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by them who believe and know the truth.
Weymouth New Testament
forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.
Williams New Testament
who forbid people to marry and teach them to abstain from certain sorts of food which God created for the grateful enjoyment of those who have faith and a clear knowledge of the truth.
World English Bible
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
Worrell New Testament
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God created for reception with thanksgiving by those who believe and have full knowledge of the truth.
Worsley New Testament
and enjoining abstinence from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by those that believe and know the truth.
Youngs Literal Translation
forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,
Themes
Apostasy » Shall abound in the latter days
Apostates » Shall abound in the latter days
Asceticism » Exemplified in celibacy
Asceticism » Extreme application of » Rebuked by paul
Sanctification » What is sanctified
Thankfulness » Should be offered » For the supply of our bodily needs
Thanksgiving » Should be offered » For the supply of our bodily wants
Topics
Interlinear
Eucharistia
Pistos
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 36 Translations in 1 Timothy 4:3
Prayers for 1 Timothy 4:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Coming Apostasy
2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience, 3 forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;
Phrases
Cross References
Romans 14:6
He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord. And he that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, it is to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.
Colossians 2:16
Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,
Daniel 11:37
And he will not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women; nor regard any +god: for he will magnify himself above all.
1 Corinthians 7:28
But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.
1 Corinthians 7:36-39
But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his virginity, if he be beyond the flower of his age, and so it must be, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.
1 Corinthians 8:8
But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.
Colossians 3:17
And everything, whatever ye may do in word or in deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by him.
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;
Genesis 1:29-30
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;
1 Samuel 9:13
As soon as ye come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people eat not until he has come, because he blesses the sacrifice; afterwards they eat that are invited. And now go up; for this very day shall ye find him.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Behold what I have seen good and comely: it is to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith man laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.
Matthew 14:19
And having commanded the crowds to recline upon the grass, having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed: and having broken the loaves, he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
Matthew 15:36
and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.
Luke 24:30
And it came to pass as he was at table with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken it, gave it to them.
John 6:23
(but other little ships out of Tiberias came near to the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks;)
John 8:31-32
Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;
Acts 10:13-15
And there was a voice to him, Rise, Peter, slay and eat.
Acts 27:35
And, having said these things and taken a loaf, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it began to eat.
Romans 14:3
Let not him that eats make little of 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 eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:13
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 10:30-31
If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I spoken evil of for what I give thanks for?
Colossians 2:20-23
If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
1 Timothy 2:4
who desires that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.
Hebrews 13:9
Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by them.