1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
In Context
5because it is consecrated through the Word of God and prayer.
Cross References
Acts 15:20but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from what is strangled, and from blood.
Acts 21:25But concerning the Gentiles who believe we have written, having judged that they need observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from that offered to idols, from the blood, from anything strangled, and from fornication.”
Romans 14:20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are ‘clean’; however it is wrong for the man who gives offence by eating.
1 Corinthians 10:25Eat whatever is being sold in the meat market, asking no question for the sake of conscience;
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 →