1 Timothy 4:5
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
In Context
4For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving:
Cross References
Genesis 1:25And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Luke 4:4And Jesus answered him: It is written, that Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every word of God.
1 Corinthians 7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife; and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband: otherwise your children should be unclean; but now they are holy.
Titus 1:15All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
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 →