1 Timothy 4:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

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  • Rom 14:6 : 6 He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.
  • Gen 9:3 : 3 Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:
  • Col 2:16 : 16 For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:
  • 1 Cor 7:28 : 28 If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.
  • 1 Cor 7:36-39 : 36 But if, in any man's opinion, he is not doing what is right for his virgin, if she is past her best years, and there is need for it, let him do what seems right to him; it is no sin; let them be married. 37 But the man who is strong in mind and purpose, who is not forced but has control over his desires, does well if he comes to the decision to keep her a virgin. 38 So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better. 39 It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.
  • 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
  • 1 Cor 10:30-31 : 30 But if I give praise to God for the food which I take, let no man say evil of me for that reason. 31 So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
  • Dan 11:37 : 37 He will have no respect for the gods of his fathers or for the god desired by women; he will have no respect for any god: for he will put himself on high over all.
  • Col 2:20-23 : 20 If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders 21 Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands, 22 (Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men? 23 These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.
  • Col 3:17 : 17 And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.
  • 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true: 14 And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Tim 2:4 : 4 Whose desire is that all men may have salvation and come to the knowledge of what is true.
  • Gen 1:29-30 : 29 And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food: 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.
  • Matt 14:19 : 19 And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.
  • Matt 15:36 : 36 And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.
  • Luke 24:30 : 30 And when he was seated with them at table, he took the bread, and said words of blessing and, making division of it, he gave it to them.
  • John 6:23 : 23 Some other boats, however, came from Tiberias near to the place where they had taken the bread after the Lord had given praise.
  • John 8:31-32 : 31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples; 32 And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.
  • Acts 10:13-15 : 13 And a voice came to him, saying, Come, Peter; take them for food. 14 But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean. 15 And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.
  • Acts 27:35 : 35 And when he had said this and had taken bread, he gave praise to God before them all, and took a meal of the broken bread.
  • Rom 14:3 : 3 Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.
  • 1 Sam 9:13 : 13 When you come into the town you will see him straight away, before he goes up to the high place for the feast: the people are waiting for his blessing before starting the feast, and after that the guests will take part in it. So go up now and you will see him.
  • Eccl 5:18 : 18 Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

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  • 1 Tim 4:4-5
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    4Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:

    5For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer.

  • Rom 14:20-22
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    20Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

    21It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

    22The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.

  • 1 Thess 4:3-5
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    3For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

    4So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

    5Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

  • Titus 1:14
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    14Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.

  • 1 Cor 8:8
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    8But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

  • Acts 15:29
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    29To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

  • Heb 13:9-10
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    9Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

    10We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.

  • 1 Tim 4:2
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    2Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;

  • Rom 14:2-3
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    2One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.

    3Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.

  • Rom 1:23-25
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    23And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

    24For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

    25Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

  • 1 Cor 10:27-28
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    27If a Gentile makes a feast for you, and you are pleased to go as a guest, take whatever is put before you, without question of right or wrong.

    28But if anyone says to you, This food has been used as an offering, do not take it, on account of him who said it, and on account of his sense of right and wrong:

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • Acts 15:20
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    20But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

  • 1 Tim 4:7
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    7But have nothing to do with unclean and foolish stories. Give yourself training in religion:

  • Col 2:21-23
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    21Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,

    22(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?

    23These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

  • Rom 14:6
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    6He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

  • Eph 5:4
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    4And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.

  • 1 Cor 7:5-6
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    5Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

    6But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.

  • 1 Tim 6:3
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    3If any man gives different teaching, not in agreement with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the teaching which is in agreement with true religion,

  • 1 Tim 6:5
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    5Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

  • Deut 14:3
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    3No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Heb 13:4
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    4Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

  • 1 Tim 1:4
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    4Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;

  • Acts 21:25
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    25But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.

  • 1 Cor 7:1
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    1Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 8:4
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    4So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

  • Rom 14:14-15
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    14I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.

    15And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

  • 2 Tim 3:5
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    5Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    2So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

  • 1 Tim 4:11
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    11Let these be your orders and your teaching.

  • 1 Tim 2:3
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    3This is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour;

  • 1 Cor 10:25
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    25Whatever meat may be had at the public market, take as food without question of right or wrong;