1 Timothy 4:3
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.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience,
Cross References
Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.
Ecclesiastes 5:18Behold 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 14:19And 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.
Luke 24:30And 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 8:31Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;
Acts 27:35And, having said these things and taken a loaf, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it began to eat.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 4:2-6
Apostasy Foretold; Christian Liberty. ( a. d. 64.) 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… Read the whole commentary →