1 Timothy 4:3
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
2through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;
Cross References
Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.
Ecclesiastes 5:18Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour, wherein he laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for this is his portion.
Matthew 14:19And he commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
Luke 24:30And it came to pass, when he had sat down with them to meat, he took the bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
John 8:31Jesus therefore said to those Jews which had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples;
Acts 27:35And when he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all: and he brake it, and 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 →