1 Timothy 4:3
“Forbidding to marry, and commanding to absteine from meates, which God hath created to bee receiued with thankesgiuing of them which beleeue, and know the trueth.”
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1 Timothy 4:3 Context
1Now the Spirit speaketh expresly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giuing heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of deuils: 2Speaking lies in hypocrisie, hauing their conscience seared with a hote iron, 3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to absteine from meates, which God hath created to bee receiued with thankesgiuing of them which beleeue, and know the trueth. 4For euery creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be receiued with thankesgiuing: 5For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.
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Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
- King James Version
{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.
- New American Standard Version (1995)