Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks:
New American Standard Bible
For
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,
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:
Amplified
For everything God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;
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.
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,
Themes
Asceticism » Extreme application of » Rebuked by paul
Eating » Admonitions concerning eating
Food » Grace before » Admonitions concerning eating
Gifts from God » Temporal » To be used and enjoyed
the Gifts of God » Temporal » To be used and enjoyed
Sanctification » What is sanctified
Temperance » Drunkards examples of » In eating
Thankfulness » Should be offered » For the supply of our bodily needs
Thanksgiving » Should be offered » For the supply of our bodily wants
Interlinear
Pas
Oudeis
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Timothy 4:4
Images 1 Timothy 4:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Coming Apostasy
3 Hindering to marry, to keep from victuals which God created for participation, with thanks, for the faithful and them knowing the truth. 4 For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks: 5 For it is consecrated by the word of God and entreaty.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:31
And God will see every thing which he made: and lo, very good And the evening shall be, and the morning shall be the sixth day.
Romans 14:14
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing common by itself; except to any one reckoning to be common, to that one it is common.
Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock, his work complete: For all his ways judgment: A God of faithfulness and not of iniquity Just and right is he.
Acts 11:7-9
And I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, kill and eat.
Acts 15:20-21
But to send to them, to keep off from pollutions of images, and harlotry, and strangulation, and blood.
Acts 15:29
To keep off from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and strangulation, and harlotry: from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Acts 21:25
And of the nations having believed, we have written having judged them to keep nothing such, except to watch themselves from that sacrificed to idols, and blood, and strangulation, and harlotry.
Romans 14:20
Not for sake of food destroy thou the work of God. Truly all things clean; but evil to the man eating by offence.
1 Corinthians 10:23
All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all things are lawful to me, but all build not the house.
1 Corinthians 10:25
Every thing being sold in the market, eat, ye, interrogating nothing through consciousness:
1 Timothy 4:3
Hindering to marry, to keep from victuals which God created for participation, with thanks, for the faithful and them knowing the truth.