1 Timothy 4:4
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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.

Lexicon
For
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

every
πᾶν (pan)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

creation
κτίσμα (ktisma)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 2938: A created thing, a creature. From ktizo; an original formation, i.e. Product.

of God
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

[is] good,
καλόν (kalon)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 2570: Properly, beautiful, but chiefly good, i.e. Valuable or virtuous.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

nothing
οὐδὲν (ouden)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3762: No one, none, nothing.

that is received
λαμβανόμενον (lambanomenon)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 2983: (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of.

with
μετὰ (meta)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 3326: (a) gen: with, in company with, (b) acc: (1) behind, beyond, after, of place, (2) after, of time, with nouns, neut. of adjectives.

thanksgiving
εὐχαριστίας (eucharistias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 2169: Thankfulness, gratitude; giving of thanks, thanksgiving. From eucharistos; gratitude; actively, grateful language.

should be rejected,
ἀπόβλητον (apoblēton)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 579: Worthy to be cast away, worthless, regarded as vile. From apoballo; cast off, i.e. such as to be rejected.


Additional Translations
For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,

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

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

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

For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;

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

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

For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be cast aside, if only it is received with thanksgiving.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

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