1 Timothy 4:3

The Coming Apostasy

² speaking lies in hypocrisy. These are men whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron, ³ 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. ⁴ For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if only it is received with thankfulness.

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 unto his Lord; and he who regards it not, disregards it unto his Lord. He who eats meat, eats unto his Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who abstains, abstains unto his Lord, since he, too, gives God thanks.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore do not permit any one to sit in judgment on you in regard to what you may eat or drink, or in regard to feast-days or new moons or sabbaths.

1 Corinthians 7:28

Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldly affairs, and I wish to spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:36-39

If, however, a father feels that he is not treating his virgin daughter in a seemly manner, in leaving her unmarried beyond the flower of her age, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the marriage take place.

1 Corinthians 8:8

Now food does not bring us nearness to God. Neither if we eat do we gain any advantage, nor if we eat not, do we lose any.

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you do, whether in word of in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God our Father through him.

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if only it is received with thankfulness.

Matthew 14:19

Then he told the people to sit down on the grass, and after taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves and handed them to the disciples, and the disciples handed them to the crowds.

Matthew 15:36

he took the seven loaves and the fish, and gave thanks, then he broke them and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.

Luke 24:30

So he went in to stay with them. But as he sat down with them, and took bread, and had blessed and broken it, and was handing it to them,

John 6:23

So, on the following day, when boats came from Tiberias near the place were they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks, they got into the boats themselves,

John 8:31-32

So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples;

Acts 10:13-15

A voice came to him, saying, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat."

Acts 27:35

When he had so said and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God before them all, and broke it and began to eat.

Romans 14:3

He who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains; and let not the man who abstains judge him who eats; for God has received him.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:13

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

1 Corinthians 10:30-31

If I eat after giving thanks, why am I denounced for eating that for which I have given thanks?"

Colossians 2:20-23

If you died with Christ to the world's rudimentary notions, why, as if you still lived in the world, do you submit yourselves to dogmatisms found on teachings and doctrines of men??21 such as "Do not handle this," "You must not taste that," "Do not touch this"??22 all things which are intended to perish in the using?

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

1 Timothy 2:4

whose will it is that all men should be saved, and come into full knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not allow yourselves to be swept away by various and strange teachings. For it is a beautiful thing to be established in heart by grace, and not by regulations regarding food, from which those that occupied themselves with them have derived no benefit.