1 Timothy 4:3

The Coming Apostasy

² through the hypocrisy of speakers of lies, who bear a brand on their own conscience, ³ 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. ⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, 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

and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. And he that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth thanks to God; and he that doth not eat, to the Lord he doth not eat, and giveth thanks to God.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be honored in all respects, and the bed be undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Colossians 2:16

Let no one then call you to account about food or drink, or a feastday, or a new moon, or sabbaths;

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if thou hast married, thou hast committed no sin; and if a virgin hath married, she hath committed no sin. Such, however, will have trouble in the flesh, which I desire to spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:36-39

But if any one thinketh that he behaveth improperly in respect to his virgin [daughter], if she pass the flower of her age [without being married], and if it must be so, let him do what he will, he committeth no sin; let them marry.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But food will not recommend us to God; if we do not eat, we are not the worse; nor if we do eat, are we the better.

Colossians 3:17

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

1 Timothy 4:4

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

Matthew 14:19

And bidding the multitudes to lie down on the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and, looking up to heaven, he blessed; and having broken the loaves he gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

Matthew 15:36

he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and broke, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

Luke 24:30

And it came to pass, as he was at table with them, that he took the bread, and blessed it, and broke and gave it to them.

John 6:23

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

John 8:31-32

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who believed in him, If ye continue in my word, ye are truly my disciples;

Acts 10:13-15

And there came a voice to him, Arise, Peter; slay, and eat.

Acts 27:35

And having thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all, and having broken it, he began to eat.

Romans 14:3

Let not him who eateth, despise him that eateth not; and let not him who eateth not, judge him that eateth; for God hath 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 are for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will make an end of 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 thankfulness, why am I to be evil spoken of in a matter for which I give thanks?

Colossians 2:20-23

If ye died with Christ to the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, such as,

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth;

1 Timothy 2:4

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

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried aside with various and strange teachings; for it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with meats, in which those who walked were not profited.