1 Timothy 4:5

for it is consecrated by God’s blessing and by prayer.

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

In Context

4Everything created by God is good, and there is nothing that need be rejected – provided only that it is received thankfully;

6Put all this before the followers, and you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, sustained by the precepts of the faith and of that good teaching by which you have guided your life.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:25So God made all the different kinds of wild beasts, and the cattle, and everything that crawls upon the ground. God saw that it was good.

Luke 4:4And Jesus answered him, “Scripture says – ‘It is not on bread alone that a person is to live.’”

1 Corinthians 7:14For, through his wife, the husband who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people; and the wife who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people through the Lord’s follower whom she has married. Otherwise your children would be ‘defiled,’ but, as it is, they belong to Christ’s people.

Titus 1:15To those whose minds are pure, all things are ritually pure, but to those whose minds are tainted and unbelieving nothing is pure, as their minds and consciences are alike polluted.

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 →

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