1 Timothy 4:2-4

Good News Translation

²Such teachings are spread by deceitful liars, whose consciences are dead, as if burnt with a hot iron. ³Such people teach that it is wrong to marry and to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten, after a prayer of thanks, by those who are believers and have come to know the truth. ⁴Everything that God has created is good; nothing is to be rejected, but everything is to be received with a prayer of thanks,

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1 Timothy 4:2-4

King James Version

²Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

³Forbidding 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.

⁴For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

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1 Timothy 4:2-4

New King James Version

²^(A)speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience ^(B)seared with a hot iron, ³forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. ⁴For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;

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1 Timothy 4:2-4

New International Version

²Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.^(A) ³They forbid people to marry^(B) and order them to abstain from certain foods,^(C) which God created^(D) to be received with thanksgiving^(E) by those who believe and who know the truth. ⁴For everything God created is good,^(F) and nothing is to be rejected^(G) if it is received with thanksgiving,