Parallel Verses
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;
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.
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:
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
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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 and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth. 4 Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully; 5 for it is consecrated by God's blessing and by prayer.
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Cross References
Romans 14:14
Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is 'defiling in itself.' A thing is 'defiling' only to him who holds it to be so.
Acts 11:7-9
And I also heard a voice saying to me-- 'Stand up, Peter, kill something and eat.'
Acts 15:20-21
But we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.
Acts 15:29
That you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from impurity. If you guard yourselves against such things, it will be well with you. Farewell.'
Acts 21:25
As to the Gentiles who have become believers in Christ, we have sent our decision that they should avoid food offered to idols, and blood, and the flesh of strangled animals, and impurity."
Romans 14:20
Do not undo God's work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is 'clean,' yet, if a man eats so as to put a stumbling- block in the way of others, he does wrong.
1 Corinthians 10:23
Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything does not build up character.
1 Corinthians 10:25
Eat anything that is sold in the market, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples;
1 Timothy 4:3
and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth.