1 Timothy 4:3

The Coming Apostasy

² By the hypocrisy of them that speak lies, having their own consciences seared as with an hot iron: ³ 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. ⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, being 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 that regardeth the day, regardeth it to the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord; for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honourable in all men, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Colossians 2:16

Let none therefore judge you in meat, or drink, or in respect of a feast-day, or of the new-moon, or of sabbath-days: Which are shadow of things to come;

1 Corinthians 7:28

Yet if thou dost marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:36-39

But if any think that he acteth indecently toward his virgin, if she be above age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But meat commendeth us not to God; for neither if we eat, are we the better, nor if we eat not, are we the worse.

Colossians 3:17

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

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving.

Matthew 14:19

and taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven, he blessed and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

Matthew 15:36

And taking the seven loaves and the fishes, he gave thanks and brake them and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

Luke 24:30

And he went in, to abide with them. And as he sat at table with them, he took the bread, and blessed it, and brake and gave to them.

John 6:23

(But there came other little vessels from Tiberias, near the place where they had eaten bread,

John 8:31-32

Then said Jesus to the Jews who believed on him, If ye continue in my word, ye are my disciples indeed:

Acts 10:13-15

And a voice came to him, Rise, Peter, kill and eat.

Acts 27:35

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

Romans 14:3

Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not: and let not him that eateth not, judge him that eateth; for God hath received him.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; yet God will destroy 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

For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I blamed for that for which I give thanks?

Colossians 2:20-23

Therefore if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, receive ye ordinances,

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to Salvation, thro' sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

1 Timothy 2:4

Who willeth all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines; for it is good, that the heart be stablished with grace, not with meats, in which they that have walked have not been profited.