KJV King James Version
Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Timothy 4:3
Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
WEB World English Bible
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
ASV American Standard Version
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
forbidding to marry—to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,
Surrounding context — 1 Timothy 4
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4 For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
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Original-language word links
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κωλυόντωνG2967 · kōluōto preventγαμεῖν,G1060 · gameōto marryἀπέχεσθαιG568 · apechōto have in fullβρωμάτωνG1033 · brōmafoodἃG3739 · hos, hēwhichὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoθεὸςG2316 · theosGodἔκτισενG2936 · ktizōto createεἰςG1519 · eistowardμετάλημψινG3336 · metalēpsispartaking ofμετὰG3326 · metawith/afterεὐχαριστίαςG2169 · eucharistiathankfulnessτοῖςG3588 · hothe/this/whoπιστοῖςG4103 · pistosfaithfulκαὶG2532 · kaiandἐπεγνωκόσινG1921 · epiginōskōto come to knowτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀλήθειαν.G225 · alētheiatruth
Cross-references
1 Timothy 4:4For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:Hebrews 13:4Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.Romans 14:6He that regardeth the day, regardeth [it] unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard [it]. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.1 Corinthians 10:30-31For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.Colossians 2:16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]:1 Corinthians 8:8But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.1 Corinthians 7:28But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.Romans 14:3Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.Hebrews 13:9Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.Colossians 3:17And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.Acts 10:13-15And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.Colossians 2:20-23Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,1 Corinthians 6:13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.Matthew 15:36And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake [them], and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.1 Timothy 2:4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.Ecclesiastes 5:18Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and comely [for one] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it [is] his portion.1 Corinthians 7:36-39But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of [her] age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
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