1 Timothy 4:3

The Coming Apostasy

² in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience, ³ forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth, ⁴ because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,

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 is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard it, and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God.

Genesis 9:3

Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

Hebrews 13:4

honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

Colossians 2:16

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

Daniel 11:37

And unto the God of his fathers he doth not attend, nor to the desire of women, yea, to any god he doth not attend, for against all he magnifieth himself.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:36-39

and if any one doth think it to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

Colossians 3:17

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

1 Timothy 4:4

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

Genesis 1:29-30

And God saith, 'Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;

1 Samuel 9:13

At your going in to the city so ye do find him, before he doth go up in to the high place to eat; for the people do not eat till his coming, for he doth bless the sacrifice; afterwards they eat, who are called, and now, go up, for at this time ye find him.'

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Lo, that which I have seen: It is good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it is his portion.

Matthew 14:19

And having commanded the multitudes to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he did bless, and having broken, he gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes,

Matthew 15:36

and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he did break, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

Luke 24:30

And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken, he was giving to them,

John 6:23

(and other little boats came from Tiberias, nigh the place where they did eat the bread, the Lord having given thanks),

John 8:31-32

Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, 'If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

Acts 10:13-15

and there came a voice unto him: 'Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.'

Acts 27:35

and having said these things, and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it, he began to eat;

Romans 14:3

let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.

Romans 14:17

for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

1 Corinthians 6:13

the meats are for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

1 Corinthians 10:30-31

and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?

Colossians 2:20-23

If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

1 Timothy 2:4

who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

Hebrews 13:9

with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for it is good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;