Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For all the creatures of God are good: and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
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.
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.
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
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Coming Apostasy
3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with giving thanks, of them which believe, and know the truth. 4 For all the creatures of God are good: and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:31
And God beheld all that he had made, and lo they were exceeding good: and so of the evening and morning was made the sixth day.
Romans 14:14
For I know, and am full certified in the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing common of itself: but unto him that judgeth it to be common, to him it is common.
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is a Rock, and perfect are his deeds, for all his ways are with discretion. God is faithful and without wickedness, both righteous and just is he.
Acts 11:7-9
And I heard also a voice saying unto me, 'Arise Peter, slay and eat.'
Acts 15:20-21
but that we write unto them, that they abstain themselves from filthiness of images, from fornication, from strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:29
that is to say: that ye abstain from things offered to images, from blood, from strangled and fornication. From which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. So fare ye well."
Acts 21:25
For as touching the gentiles which believe: we have written, and concluded, that they observe no such things - but that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from strangled, and from fornication."
Romans 14:20
Destroy not the work of God for a little meat's sake. All things are pure: but it is evil for that man, which eateth with hurt of his conscience.
1 Corinthians 10:23
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but all things edify not.
1 Corinthians 10:25
Whatsoever is sold in the market, that eat, and ask no questions for conscience sake.
1 Timothy 4:3
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with giving thanks, of them which believe, and know the truth.