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1 Timothy 4:3

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3iForbidding to marry, jand commanding kto abstain from meats, lwhich God hath created to be received mwith thanksgiving of them which believe and nknow the truth.

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Footnotes

  1. iDan. 11:37. Col. 2:20. Comp. 1 Cor. 7:28, 36, 38. Heb. 13:4.
  2. jConstruction as 1 Cor. 14:34. See Deut. 4:12 marg.
  3. kSo Rom. 14:3, 6, 17. 1 Cor. 8:8. See Col. 2:16.
  4. mver. 4. So Deut. 8:10. Ecclus. 32:13. See Rom. 14:6.
  5. nSo 2 Pet. 2:21.

Cross references

  1. lGen. 1:29. & 9:3.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.

NLTNew Living Translation

They will say it is wrong to be married and wrong to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten with thanks by faithful people who know the truth.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

who forbid marrying and insist on abstaining from foods that God created for sharing in with thankfulness by those who believe and who know the truth,