1 Timothy 4:3

The Coming Apostasy

² through the pretensions of false teachers, men with seared consciences, ³ 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. ⁴ For everything in God's creation is good, and nothing is to be refused, provided it is accepted 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

The man who keeps a certain day keeps it for the Lord. The man who eats anything does it for the Lord too, for he gives God thanks. The man who refuses to eat anything does it for the Lord too, and gives God thanks.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage must be held in honor by all, and the marriage relations kept sacred. Persons who are sexually vicious and immoral God will punish.

Colossians 2:16

Stop letting anyone pass judgment on you in matters of eating and drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly feasts or sabbaths.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you do get married, you have not sinned in doing so. And if a girl gets married, she has not sinned in doing so. But those who do will have trouble in their earthly life, and I am trying to spare you this.

1 Corinthians 7:36-39

Now if a father thinks that he is not doing the proper thing regarding his single daughter, if she is past the bloom of her youth, and she ought to do so, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the daughter and her suitor marry.

1 Corinthians 8:8

Food will never bring us near to God. We are no worse if we do not eat it; we are no better if we do.

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you say or do, let it all be done with reference to the Lord Jesus, and through Him continue to give thanks to God the Father.

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything in God's creation is good, and nothing is to be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving;

Matthew 14:19

After ordering the crowds to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and two fish and looked up to heaven and blessed them; then He broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to the disciples, and they gave them to the people.

Matthew 15:36

and He took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks; then He broke them in pieces, and kept giving the pieces to the disciples, and they to the crowds.

Luke 24:30

And after He had taken His place at table with them, He took the loaf and blessed it and broke it in pieces and handed it to them.

John 6:23

Other boats from Tiberias had landed near the place where the people ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

John 8:31-32

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,

Acts 10:13-15

A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill something and eat it."

Acts 27:35

After saying this he took some bread and thanked God for it before them all; then he broke it in pieces and began to eat it.

Romans 14:3

The man who eats anything must not look down on the man who does not do so, nor must the man who does not do so condemn the man who does, for God has fully accepted him.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God does not consist in what we eat and drink, but in doing right, in peace and joy through the Holy Spirit;

1 Corinthians 6:13

Foods are intended for the stomach, and the stomach for foods, but God will finally put a stop to both of them. The body is not intended for sexual immorality but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.

1 Corinthians 10:30-31

If I give thanks and thus partake of food, why am I to be blamed for that for which I give thanks?

Colossians 2:20-23

If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as,

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

We ought always to be thanking God for you, brothers dearly loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's consecration of you and through your faith in the truth,

1 Timothy 2:4

who is ever willing for all mankind to be saved and to come to an increasing knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

You must stop being carried away with varied and strange teachings. For it is a good thing for the heart to be strengthened by God's spiritual strength, not by special kinds of food, from which those adhering to them have gotten no good.