1 Timothy 4:3 Cross References - Godbey

³ forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth.

¹⁹ And commanding the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven, He blessed them; and breaking, gave the bread to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

³⁶ He took the seven loaves and the fishes; having given thanks, He broke them, and gave to His disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

³⁰ And it came to pass, while He was reclining with them at the table, taking bread, He blessed it, and breaking it, He gave it to them:

²³ (other ships came from Tiberias near the place where they ate the bread, the Lord having given thanks).

³¹ Then Jesus said to the Jews, who believed on Him, If you may abide in my word, you are truly my disciples; ³² and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

¹³ And a voice came to him, Arising, Peter, slay, and eat. ¹⁴ And Peter said, By no means, Lord, because I never was in the habit of eating anything unconsecrated and unclean. ¹⁵ And the voice again the second time came to him, Whatsoever things God has cleansed, do not count unclean;

³⁵ And having spoken these words, and taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and breaking it, began to eat.

³ Let not the one eating snub the one not eating. Let not the one not eating judge the one eating; for God received him.

⁶ The one regarding the day, regards it to the Lord: the one eating, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one not eating, eats not to the Lord, and gives thanks to God.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

¹³ Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats: but God will destroy both this and them. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

²⁸ But if, indeed you may marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin may marry, she has not sinned; but such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

³⁶ But if any one considers that he is acting indiscreetly towards his virgin, if she may be marriageable, and thus it ought so to be, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry. ³⁷ But whosoever stands firm in his heart, having no necessity, and has the right according to his own will, and has determined this in his heart, to keep his virgin, will do well. ³⁸ So indeed he that marries his own virgin does well; and he that marries her not will do better. ³⁹ A wife has been given so long a time as her husband may live; but if her husband may die, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

⁸ But meat will not commend us to God; neither if we eat are we the better; nor if we eat not are we the worse.

³⁰ If I partake with grace, why am I traduced for that over which I give thanks? ³¹ Then whether you eat, or whether you drink, or what you do, do all things to the glory of God.

¹⁶ Therefore let no one judge you in meat, or in drink, or in the participation of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath:

²⁰ If along with Christ you are dead from the elements of the world, why are you dogmatized as living in the world, ²¹ Touch not, taste not, handle not, ²² those things which are all unto destruction by use according to the commandments and teachings of the people? ²³ Which indeed are having a word of wisdom in will worship, and humiliation, and austerity of the body; not in any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

¹⁷ and every thing whatsoever you may do, in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

¹³ But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning unto salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth; ¹⁴ unto which He also called you through our gospel, unto the possession of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ who wishes all men to be saved, and to come to the perfect knowledge of the truth.

⁴ Because every creature of God is good, and nothing rejected, being received with thanksgiving:

⁴ Marriage is honorable among all, and the couch undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

⁹ Be not carried away with fantastical and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, in which those going round were not profited.