1 Timothy 4:3 Cross References - Living_Oracles

³ who forbid to marry, and command to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful, who thoroughly know the truth;-

¹⁹ Then having commanded the people to recline upon the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking toward heaven, blessed them; then breaking the loaves, he gave them to the disciples, and they distributed them among the people.

³⁶ he took the seven loaves and the fishes, which, having given thanks, he divided and gave to his disciples, who distributed them among the people.

³⁰ While they were at table together, he took the loaf, and blessed and broke it, and distributed to them.

²³ (other boats, however, arrived from Tiberias, nigh the place where they had eat, after the Lord had given thanks;)

³¹ Jesus, therefore, said to those Jews who believed on him, If you persevere in my doctrine, you are my disciples indeed. ³² And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.

¹³ And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter, kill, and eat. ¹⁴ But Peter said, By no means, Lord; for I have never eat anything which is common or unclean. ¹⁵ And the voice said to him again, the second time, Those things which God has cleansed, do not you call common.

³⁵ And when he had spoke thus, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God, before them all; and having broken it, he began to eat.

³ Let not him who eats, despise him who eats not; and let not him who eats not, condemn him who eats: for God has received him.

⁶ He who observes the day, observe it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day to the Lord, does not observe it: he who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks.

¹⁷ For the Reign of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy, in the Holy Spirit.

¹³ Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; however, God will destroy both it and them. Now, the body was not made for uncleanness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

²⁸ And yet, if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned: nevertheless, affliction in the flesh such shall have; but I spare you.

³⁶ But if any one thinks he acts improperly toward his virgin, if she be above age, unmarried, and so needs to be married; let him do what she inclines, he does not sin: let such marry. ³⁷ But he who stands firm in his heart; not having necessity, and has power concerning his own will; and has determined this in his own heart, to keep his virgin, does well. ³⁸ So, then, even he who gives her in marriage, does well; but he who gives her not in marriage, does better. ³⁹ A wife is bound, as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she pleases; only in the Lord.

⁸ But meat does not recommend us to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse.

³⁰ But if, by favor, I be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks? ³¹ Whether, then, you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

¹⁶ Let no one, therefore, judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a festival, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths;

²⁰ Now, if you have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, you are subject to ordinances, ²¹ Touch not, taste not, handle not; ²² (which are all to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men; ²³ which things have, indeed, a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and not sparing the body-without any respect to the gratification of the flesh.

¹⁷ And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God, even the Father, through him.

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God has, from the beginning, chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of spirit, and belief of truth; ¹⁴ to which he called you, by our gospel, that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ who wills all men to be saved, and to come to an acknowledgment of the truth.

⁴ that every creature of God is good, being received with thanksgiving, and nothing is to be rejected;

⁴ Let marriage be honorable among all, and the bed unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

⁹ Be not tossed about with various and foreign doctrines; for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by meats, by which they have not profited, who have been taken up with them.