1 Timothy 4:4
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New International Version (©1984)
For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;

International Standard Version (©2008)
For everything God created is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Everything God created is good. Nothing should be rejected if it is received with prayers of thanks.

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

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

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

Bible in Basic English
Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:

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

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if received with thanksgiving:

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,

Geneva Study Bible

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

(7) He sets an apostolic rule for taking away the difference of meats, against that false doctrine.

People's New Testament

4:4 For every creature of God is good. Everything God had created is good and has its proper use.

And nothing to be refused. Hence, it is not to be refused as sinful. This applies to what God has created. He did not create one drop of alcohol.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4, 5. Translate as Greek, "Because" (expressing a reason resting on an objective fact; or, as here, a Scripture quotation)-"For" (a reason resting on something subjective in the writer's mind).

every creature . good-(Ge 1:31; Ro 14:14, 20). A refutation by anticipation of the Gnostic opposition to creation: the seeds of which were now lurking latently in the Church. Judaism (Ac 10:11-16; 1Co 10:25, 26) was the starting-point of the error as to meats: Oriental Gnosis added new elements. The old Gnostic heresy is now almost extinct; but its remains in the celibacy of Rome's priesthood, and in its fasts from animal meats, enjoined under the penalty of mortal sin, remain.

if . with thanksgiving-Meats, though pure in themselves, become impure by being received with an unthankful mind (Ro 14:6; Tit 1:15).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:1-5 The Holy Spirit, both in the Old and the New Testament, spoke of a general turning from the faith of Christ, and the pure worship of God. This should come during the Christian dispensation, for those are called the latter days. False teachers forbid as evil what God has allowed, and command as a duty what he has left indifferent. We find exercise for watchfulness and self-denial, in attending to the requirements of God's law, without being tasked to imaginary duties, which reject what he has allowed. But nothing justifies an intemperate or improper use of things; and nothing will be good to us, unless we seek by prayer for the Lord's blessing upon it.


Romans 14:6 He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.
1 Corinthians 10:26 FOR THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND ALL IT CONTAINS.
1 Corinthians 10:30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks?
1 Timothy 4:3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. (NASB ©1995)

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

every. Ge 1:31 De 32:4

and. Ac 11:7-9 15:20,21,29 21:25 Ro 14:14,20 1Co 10:23,25

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