1 Timothy 4:3

The Coming Apostasy

² speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience, ³ forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth. ⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;

Abstain from

Give Thanks

God Created

God Made

Have Faith

Know the Truth

Knowledge of the Truth

Received with Thanksgiving

Romans 14:6

He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord. And he that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, it is to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

Genesis 9:3

Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

Colossians 2:16

Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,

Daniel 11:37

And he will not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women; nor regard any +god: for he will magnify himself above all.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:36-39

But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his virginity, if he be beyond the flower of his age, and so it must be, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

Colossians 3:17

And everything, whatever ye may do in word or in deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by him.

1 Timothy 4:4

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

Genesis 1:29-30

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;

1 Samuel 9:13

As soon as ye come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people eat not until he has come, because he blesses the sacrifice; afterwards they eat that are invited. And now go up; for this very day shall ye find him.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold what I have seen good and comely: it is to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith man laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.

Matthew 14:19

And having commanded the crowds to recline upon the grass, having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed: and having broken the loaves, he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

Matthew 15:36

and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.

Luke 24:30

And it came to pass as he was at table with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken it, gave it to them.

John 6:23

(but other little ships out of Tiberias came near to the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks;)

John 8:31-32

Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;

Acts 10:13-15

And there was a voice to him, Rise, Peter, slay and eat.

Acts 27:35

And, having said these things and taken a loaf, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it began to eat.

Romans 14:3

Let not him that eats make little of him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.

Romans 14:17

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 10:30-31

If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I spoken evil of for what I give thanks for?

Colossians 2:20-23

If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

1 Timothy 2:4

who desires that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by them.