1 Timothy 4:3

The Coming Apostasy

² speaking lies in hypocrisy, being seared in their own conscience, ³ 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. ⁴ For every creation of God is good, and nothing 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 who regards the day regards it to the Lord; and he not regarding the day, does not regard it to the Lord. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, does not eat to the Lord, and gives God thanks.

Genesis 9:3

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

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths.

Daniel 11:37

He will not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god. For he shall magnify himself above all.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:36-39

But if anyone thinks it behaving himself indecently toward his virgin (if she is past her prime, and so it ought to be) let him do what he will; he does not sin; let them marry.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But food does not commend us to God. For neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.

Colossians 3:17

And everything, 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 creation of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving.

Genesis 1:29-30

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

1 Samuel 9:13

As you come to the city, you shall immediately find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat until he comes, because he blesses the feast. Afterwards those who have been invited eat. And now go up, for about this time you shall find him.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold that which I have seen. it is good and right for one to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he labors 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 crowd to recline on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to Heaven He blessed and broke, and gave the loaves to His disciples. And the disciples gave to the crowd.

Matthew 15:36

And He took the seven loaves and the fish, and gave thanks, and broke, and gave to His disciples. And the disciples gave to the crowd.

Luke 24:30

And it happened as He reclined with them, taking the loaf, He blessed it, and breaking it, He gave to them.

John 6:23

(however, other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the loaves, the Lord having given thanks),

John 8:31-32

Then Jesus said to the Jews who believed on Him, If you continue in My Word, you are My disciples indeed.

Acts 10:13-15

And a voice came to him, saying, Rise, Peter! Kill and eat!

Acts 27:35

And saying these things, and taking bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and breaking, he began to eat.

Romans 14:3

Do not let him who eats despise him who does not eat; and do not let him who does not eat judge him who 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 shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is 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

If then you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to its ordinances:

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth,

1 Timothy 2:4

who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.