1 Timothy 4:4 Cross References - Riverside

⁴ For everything made by God is excellent and nothing is to be rejected if taken with thanksgiving.

⁷ Then I heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat.' ⁸ I said, 'By no means, Lord, for never has anything common or unclean entered my mouth.' ⁹ The voice spoke again from heaven, 'What God has cleansed you must not think common.'

²⁰ but to write to them to abstain from contamination with idols, and from unchastity, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. ²¹ For Moses has had for generations past in every city those who preach him, for he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath."

²⁹ to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from strangled things, and from unchastity. If you keep yourselves from these you will do well. Farewell."

²⁵ "But as to the Gentiles that have believed, we have, after consideration, sent our decision that they shall guard themselves against what has been sacrificed to idols, and against blood, and against what has been strangled, and against unchastity."

¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is defiling in itself. But to one who thinks anything to be defiling it is defiling.

²⁰ Do not for the sake of food break down the work of God. All things are pure, but anything is evil to the man who eats it with a feeling of doing wrong.

²³ All things are lawful, but not all are beneficial. All things are lawful, but not all build up character.

²⁵ Everything that is sold in market eat, raising no questions of conscience.

³ forbidding marriage, and insisting on abstinence from certain kinds of food which God made to be partaken of with thanksgiving by those who are faithful and know the truth.