1 Timothy 4:4

1 Timothy 4:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
• New International Version (NIV)For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
• English Standard Version (ESV)For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
• New King James Version (NKJV)For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;

Context of 1 Timothy 4:4

2through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; 3forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving: 5for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer. 6If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed until now:

1 Timothy 4:4 word by word

ὅτι πᾶν κτίσμα θεοῦ καλὸν καὶ οὐδὲν ἀπόβλητον μετὰ εὐχαριστίας λαμβανόμενον·Read the interlinear

• Forὅτιhoti · that/since: sinceG3754
• everyπᾶςpas · allG3956
• creatureκτίσμαktisma · creatureG2938
• ofθεόςtheos · GodG2316
• goodκαλόςkalos · goodG2570
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• nothingοὐδείςoudeis · noneG3762
• rejectedἀπόβλητοςapoblētos · rejectedG579
• ifὅστιςhostis hētis ho6ti · who/whichG3748
• receivedλαμβάνωlambanō · to takeG2983
• withμετάmeta · with/afterG3326
• thanksgivingεὐχαριστίαeucharistia · thankfulnessG2169

Cross-references for 1 Timothy 4:4

• Genesis 1:31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
• Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are judgment: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
• Acts 11:7And I heard also a voice saying unto me, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.
• Acts 15:20but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
• Acts 21:25But as touching the Gentiles which have believed, we wrote, giving judgment that they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.
• Romans 14:14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
• 1 Corinthians 10:23All things are lawful; but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful; but all things edify not.

Commentaries on 1 Timothy 4:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4For 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, , rejected or despised. We find a saying very similar to this in Lucian's Timon: . The gifts which are from Jove ought not to be Despised. This appears to have been a proverbial saying among the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4For every creature of God is good - Greek, “all the creatures, or all that God has created” - ͂ ́ pan ktismathat 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-5Paul’s plain teaching contrasts with the false teachings he criticizes (3:16).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-54-5. 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…Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Timothy 4:4

• Animals
• Asceticism
• Commandments
• Food
• Gifts from God
• Minister, Christian
• Prayer
• Thankfulness

In the dictionaries

• God
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Attendance
• Charge
• Example
• Godliness
• Nourish
• Presbytery
• Profane
• Profiting

Commentaries on 1 Timothy 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings