1 Timothy 4:4
Good News Translation
Everything that God has created is good; nothing is to be rejected, but everything is to be received with a prayer of thanks,

New Revised Standard Version
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving;

Contemporary English Version
Everything God created is good. And if you give thanks, you may eat anything.

New American Bible
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected when received with thanksgiving,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving:

every.

Genesis 1:31 And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

Deuteronomy 32:4 The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.

and.

Acts 11:7-9 And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise, Peter. Kill and eat. . . .

Acts 15:20,21,29 But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood. . . .

Acts 21:25 But, as touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written, decreeing that they should only refrain themselves from that which has been offered to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication.

Romans 14:14,20 I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:23,25 All things are lawful for me: but all things do not edify. . . .

Context
Warnings against False Teachers
3Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth. 4For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving: 5For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:31
And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

Acts 10:15
And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God hath cleansed, do not thou call common.

Romans 14:6
He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord. And he that eateth eateth to the Lord: for he giveth thanks to God. And he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not and giveth thanks to God.

1 Corinthians 10:26
The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.

1 Corinthians 10:30
If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

1 Timothy 4:3
Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

1 Timothy 4:3
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