1 Timothy 4:4

4 because everything created by God [is] good and nothing [is to be] rejected [if it is] received with thankfulness,

1 Timothy 4:4 Meaning and Commentary

1 Timothy 4:4

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.

1 Timothy 4:4 In-Context

2 by the hypocrisy of liars, who are seared in their own conscience,

3 who forbid marrying [and insist on] abstaining from foods that God created for sharing in with thankfulness by those who believe and who know the truth,

4 because everything created by God [is] good and nothing [is to be] rejected [if it is] received with thankfulness,

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

6 [By] teaching these [things] to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed faithfully.

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[if]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("received") which is understood as conditional