Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 In the hypocrisy of speaking falsely; burned with a hot iron in their own consciousness; 3 Hindering to marry, to keep from victuals which God created for participation, with thanks, for the faithful and them knowing the truth. 4 For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks:
Phrases
Cross References
Romans 14:6
He minding the day, minds to the Lord; and he not minding the day, to the Lord he minds not. He eating, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he not eating, to the Lord he eats not, and he gives thanks to God.
Genesis 9:3
Every creeping thing which it lives shall be food to you as the green herb. I gave you all things.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage honoured in all, and the bed unpolluted: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Colossians 2:16
Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths:
Daniel 11:37
And concerning the God of his fathers he shall not understand, and concerning the desire of women, and concerning every god he shall not understand; for he shall magnify himself over all.
1 Corinthians 7:28
And if also thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. And such shall have pressure to the flesh: and I spare you.
1 Corinthians 7:36-39
And if any think to act unbecomingly towards his virgin, if she be past the vigor of youth, and so it ought to be, let him do what he will, he sins not; let them marry.
1 Corinthians 8:8
And food sets us not before God: for neither, if we eat, do we abound; neither if we eat not, do we want.
Colossians 3:17
And all whatever you do in word and in work, all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
1 Timothy 4:4
For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks:
Genesis 1:29-30
And God will say, Lo, I gave to you every green herb scattering seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree scattering seed; to you it shall be for food.
1 Samuel 9:13
As you come to the city thus ye shall find him, before he will go up to Bamah to eat: for the people will not eat till his coming, for he will bless the sacrifice; after this they being called will eat. And now go up, for this day ye shall find him.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Behold, what I saw: good, which is beautiful to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he will labor under the sun the number of the days of his life, which God gave to him; for this his portion.
Matthew 14:19
And having encouraged the crowds to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves, and two fishes, and having looked up to heaven, he praised; and having broken, gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds.
Matthew 15:36
And having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having returned thanks, he brake, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.
Luke 24:30
And it was in his reclining at table with them, having taken bread, he praised, and having broken, bestowed upon them.
John 6:23
(But also other small vessels came out of Tiberias near to the place where they ate bread, the Lord having returned thanks:)
John 8:31-32
Then said Jesus to the Jews having believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples.
Acts 10:13-15
And a voice was to him, Having risen, Peter, kill, and eat.
Acts 27:35
And having said these, and having taken bread, he returned thanks to God before all: and having broken, he began to eat.
Romans 14:3
Let not him eating despise him not eating: and let not him not eating judge him eating: for God has received him.
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:13
Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: and God will also leave unemployed this and them. And the body not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 10:30-31
And if I partake by grace, why am I defamed for what I give thanks?
Colossians 2:20-23
If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
1 Timothy 2:4
Who wills all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Hebrews 13:9
With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited.