Parallel Verses

Amplified

For everything God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;

New American Standard Bible

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For everything created by God is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

International Standard Version

For everything God created is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

A Conservative Version

Because every creation of God is good, and nothing rejected that is received with thankfulness,

American Standard Version

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

An Understandable Version

For everything created by God is permitted [to be eaten] and nothing should be refused, if it is received with gratitude,

Anderson New Testament

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

Bible in Basic English

Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:

Common New Testament

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;

Daniel Mace New Testament

for all that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it be receiv'd with thanksgiving:

Darby Translation

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

Godbey New Testament

Because every creature of God is good, and nothing rejected, being received with thanksgiving:

Goodspeed New Testament

For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving,

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks:

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

because everything created by God [is] good and nothing [is to be] rejected [if it is] received with thankfulness,

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For all the creatures of God are good: and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

Moffatt New Testament

Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed ??provided it is eaten with thanksgiving,

Montgomery New Testament

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

NET Bible

For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

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

Sawyer New Testament

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, [but] to be received with thanksgiving;

The Emphasized Bible

Because, every creature of God, is good, and nothing to be cast away, if, with thanksgiving, it be received, -

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For every creature of God is good, and none to be rejected, if used with thanksgiving:

Twentieth Century New Testament

Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully;

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be cast aside, if only it is received with thanksgiving.

Williams New Testament

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

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

Because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, when it is received with thanksgiving;

Worsley New Testament

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

κτίσμα 
Ktisma 
Usage: 4

of God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

is good
καλός 
Kalos 
Usage: 62

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

οὐδείς 
Oudeis 
Usage: 160

to be refused
ἀπόβλητος 
Apobletos 
be refused
Usage: 1

if it be received
λαμβάνω 
lambano 
receive, take, have, catch, not tr,
Usage: 178

with
μετά 
meta 
with, after, among, hereafter , afterward , against, not tr,
Usage: 346

Images 1 Timothy 4:4

Context Readings

The Coming Apostasy

3 who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from [certain kinds of] foods which God has created to be gratefully shared by those who believe and have [a clear] knowledge of the truth. 4 For everything God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude; 5 for it is sanctified [set apart, dedicated to God] by means of the word of God and prayer.


Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good and He validated it completely. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Romans 14:14

I know and am convinced [as one] in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean [ritually defiled, and unholy] in itself; but [nonetheless] it is unclean to anyone who thinks it is unclean.

Deuteronomy 32:4


“The Rock! His work is perfect,
For all His ways are just;
A God of faithfulness without iniquity (injustice),
Just and upright is He.

Acts 11:7-9

and I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat.’

Acts 15:20-21

but that we write to them that they are to abstain from anything that has been contaminated by [being offered to] idols and from sexual impurity and from [eating the meat of] what has been strangled and from [the consumption of] blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from [consuming] blood, and from [eating the meat of] things that have been strangled, and from sexual impurity. If you keep yourselves from these things, you will do well. Farewell.”

Acts 21:25

But with regard to the Gentiles who have believed [in Christ], we have sent them a letter with our decision that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from [consuming] blood and from [the meat of] what has been strangled and from sexual immorality.”

Romans 14:20

Do not, for the sake of food, tear down the work of God. All things indeed are [ceremonially] clean, but they are wrong for the person who eats and offends [another’s conscience in the process].

1 Corinthians 10:23

All things are lawful [that is, morally legitimate, permissible], but not all things are beneficial or advantageous. All things are lawful, but not all things are constructive [to character] and edifying [to spiritual life].

1 Corinthians 10:25

[Regarding meat offered to idols:] Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking any questions for the sake of your conscience,

1 Timothy 4:3

who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from [certain kinds of] foods which God has created to be gratefully shared by those who believe and have [a clear] knowledge of the truth.

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