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THE MESSAGE
1 Timothy 4:4
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For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
For euery creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be receiued with thankesgiuing:
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;
Everything God made is good, and nothing should be refused if it is accepted with thanks,
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
Everything God created is good. And if you give thanks, you may eat anything.
For everything created by God is good, and nothing received with thanksgiving needs to be rejected,
For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;
Everything that God made is good. Nothing he made should be refused if it is accepted with thanks to him.
For euery creature of God is good, and nothing ought to be refused, if it be receiued with thankesgiuing.
For all things created by God are good, nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
Everything that God has created is good; nothing is to be rejected, but everything is to be received with a prayer of thanks,
because everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thankfulness,
Because every creature of God is good, and nothing to be thrust away, but having been received with thanksgiving;
For everything God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
For everything God created is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,Romans 14:14,20; 1 Corinthians 10:25; Titus 1:15;">[xr]
because every creature of Aloha is good, and nothing to be abominated, if with thanksgiving it be received;
Because whatever is created by God is good; and there is nothing which should be rejected if it be received with thankfulness;
For euery creature of God [is] good, and nothyng to be refused, yf it be receaued with thankes geuyng.
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, if it is received with thanksgiving.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, being 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 ech creature of God is good, and no thing is to be cast awei, which is takun with doyng of thankyngis;
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving:
For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if received with thanksgiving:
For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;
Since everything God created is good, we should not reject any of it but receive it with thanks.
Everything God made is good. We should not put anything aside if we can take it and thank God for it.
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving;
Because, every creature of God, is good, and nothing to be cast away, if, with thanksgiving, it be received, -
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving:
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;
For all the creatures of God are good and nothynge to be refused yf it be receaved with thankes gevynge.
because every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,
For euery creature off God is good, and nothinge to be refused, yt is receaued with thankesgeuynge:
for all that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it be receiv'd with thanksgiving:
Nothing is to be rejected if God made it and a man is thankful for the full belly.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
every: Genesis 1:31, Deuteronomy 32:4
and: Acts 11:7-9, Acts 15:20, Acts 15:21, Acts 15:29, Acts 21:25, Romans 14:14, Romans 14:20, 1 Corinthians 10:23, 1 Corinthians 10:25
Reciprocal: Genesis 2:16 - thou mayest freely eat Genesis 9:3 - even Genesis 9:4 - the life Leviticus 3:17 - blood Leviticus 7:13 - leavened Leviticus 7:26 - ye shall eat Leviticus 11:2 - General Deuteronomy 8:10 - thou hast Deuteronomy 12:16 - General 1 Samuel 9:13 - he doth bless Ecclesiastes 8:15 - Then I Matthew 14:19 - he blessed Matthew 15:11 - that which goeth Matthew 15:36 - and gave thanks Mark 6:41 - blessed Luke 9:16 - he blessed Luke 11:41 - all Luke 22:17 - gave John 6:11 - when Acts 27:35 - and gave 1 Corinthians 10:30 - for which 1 Timothy 1:18 - according 1 Timothy 4:3 - with 1 Timothy 5:23 - General Titus 1:15 - the pure
Cross-References
Cain left the presence of God and lived in No-Man's-Land, east of Eden.
Cain slept with his wife. She conceived and had Enoch. He then built a city and named it after his son, Enoch. Enoch had Irad, Irad had Mehujael, Mehujael had Methushael, Methushael had Lamech.
Lamech married two wives, Adah and Zillah. Adah gave birth to Jabal, the ancestor of all who live in tents and herd cattle. His brother's name was Jubal, the ancestor of all who play the lyre and flute. Zillah gave birth to Tubal-Cain, who worked at the forge making bronze and iron tools. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.
When the sun was down and it was dark, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch moved between the split carcasses. That's when God made a covenant with Abram: "I'm giving this land to your children, from the Nile River in Egypt to the River Euphrates in Assyria—the country of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."
Then God sent lightning. The fire cremated the 250 men who were offering the incense.
"On the other hand, you don't redeem a firstborn ox, sheep, or goat—they are holy. Instead splash their blood on the Altar and burn their fat as a Fire-Gift, a pleasing fragrance to God . But you get the meat, just as you get the breast from the Wave-Offering and the right thigh. All the holy offerings that the People of Israel set aside for God , I'm turning over to you and your children. That's the standard rule and includes both you and your children—a Covenant-of-Salt, eternal and unchangeable before God ."
The angel of God stretched out the tip of the stick he was holding and touched the meat and the bread. Fire broke out of the rock and burned up the meat and bread while the angel of God slipped away out of sight. And Gideon knew it was the angel of God! Gideon said, "Oh no! Master, God ! I have seen the angel of God face-to-face!"
Immediately the fire of God fell and burned up the offering, the wood, the stones, the dirt, and even the water in the trench.
When Solomon finished praying, a bolt of lightning out of heaven struck the Whole-Burnt-Offering and sacrifices and the Glory of God filled The Temple. The Glory was so dense that the priests couldn't get in— God so filled The Temple that there was no room for the priests! When all Israel saw the fire fall from heaven and the Glory of God fill The Temple, they fell on their knees, bowed their heads, and worshiped, thanking God : Yes! God is good! His love never quits!
By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. That's what God noticed and approved as righteous. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For every creature of God is good,.... For food; and should be taken and used for that purpose, at all times, without distinction; even every creature which is made for food, and which is easy to be discerned by men:
and nothing to be refused; or rejected as common and unclean, or to be abstained from at certain times:
if it be received with thanksgiving: if not, persons are very ungrateful, and very unworthy of such favours; and it would be just in God to withhold them from them; and this they may expect at his hands, who reject them with contempt, or receive them with unthankfulness, or abstain front them in a religious way he never enjoined.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For every creature of God is good - Greek, “all the creatures, or all that God has created” - πᾶν κτίσμα pan ktisma: that is, as he made it; compare Genesis 1:10, Genesis 1:12, Genesis 1:18, Genesis 1:31. It does not mean that every moral agent remains good as long as he is “a creature of God,” but moral agents, human beings and angels, were good as they were made at first; Genesis 1:31. Nor does it mean that all that God has made is good “for every object to which it can be applied.” It is good in its place; good for the purpose for which he made it. But it should not be inferred that a thing which is poisonous in its nature is good for food, “because” it is a creation of God. It is good only in its place, and for the ends for which he intended it. Nor should it be inferred that what God has made is necessarily good “after” it has been perverted by man. As God made it originally, it might have been used without injury.
Apples and peaches were made good, and are still useful and proper as articles of food; rye and Indian-corn are good, and are admirably adapted to the support of man and beast, but it does not follow that all that “man” can make of them is necessarily good. He extracts from them a poisonous liquid, and then says that “every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused.” But is this a fair use of this passage of Scripture? True, they “are” good - they “are” to be received with gratitude as he made them, and as applied to the uses for which he designed them; but why apply this passage to prove that a deleterious beverage, which “man” has extracted from what God has made, is good also, and good for all the purposes to which it can be applied? As “God” made these things, they are good. As man perverts them, it is no longer proper to call them the “creation of God,” and they may be injurious in the highest degree. This passage, therefore, should not be adduced to vindicate the use of intoxicating drinks. As employed by the apostle, it had no such reference, nor does it contain any “principle” which can properly receive any such application.
And nothing to be refused - Nothing that God has made, for the purposes for which he designed it. The necessity of the case the “exigency of the passage” - requires this interpretation. It “cannot” mean that we are not to refuse poison if offered in our food, or that we are never to refuse food that is to us injurious or offensive; nor can it anymore mean that we are to receive “all” that may be offered to us as a beverage. The sense is, that as God made it, and for the purposes for which he designed it, it is not to be held to be evil; or, which is the same thing, it is not to be prohibited as if there were merit in abstaining from it. It is not to be regarded as a religious duty to abstain from food which God has appointed for the support of man.
If it be received with thanksgiving - see the 1 Corinthians 10:31 note; Ephesians 5:20 note; Philippians 4:6 note.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Timothy 4:4. For every creature of God is good — That is: Every creature which God has made for man's nourishment is good for that purpose, and to be thankfully received whenever necessary for the support of human life; and nothing of that sort is at any time to be refused, ουδεν αποβλητον, rejected or despised. We find a saying very similar to this in Lucian's Timon: Ουτοι αποβλητα εισι δωρα τα παρα Διος. The gifts which are from Jove ought not to be DESPISED. This appears to have been a proverbial saying among the heathens.
