A Warning against Apostasy
1 Timothy 4:4
In 9 translations
- BSB
- For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
- KJV
- For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
- WEB
- For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
- ASV
- For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:
- LSV
- because every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,
- YLT
- because every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,
- DBY
- For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;Elohim
- DRC
- For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving:
- GNV
- For euery creature of God is good, and nothing ought to be refused, if it be receiued with thankesgiuing.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ὅτι πᾶν κτίσμα θεοῦ καλόν, καὶ οὐδὲν ἀπόβλητον μετὰ εὐχαριστίας λαμβανόμενον,
- RP2018
- Ὅτι πᾶν κτίσμα θεοῦ καλόν, καὶ οὐδὲν ἀπόβλητον, μετὰ εὐχαριστίας λαμβανόμενον·
- TR-Boyd
- Ὅτι πᾶν κτίσμα Θεοῦ καλόν, καὶ οὐδὲν ἀπόβλητον, μετὰ εὐχαριστίας λαμβανόμενον·
- SCR1894
- οτι παν κτισμα θεου καλον και ουδεν αποβλητον μετα ευχαριστιας λαμβανομενον
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
RefuseAsceticismBrethren of the LordFoodGifts from GodGifts of God, TheThanksgivingAnimalsCommandmentsThankfulness
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Cross-references most cited first
- Romans 14:20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
- 1 Corinthians 10:25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
- Romans 14:14I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
- 1 Corinthians 10:23“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.
- Acts 21:25As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
- Acts 11:7–9Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’ ‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything…
- Acts 15:20–21Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood. For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from ancient times…
- Genesis 1:31And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
- 1 Timothy 4:3They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
- Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
- Acts 15:29You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
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