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1 Timothy 4:2-4
New Catholic Bible
1 Timothy 4:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences have been branded as with a burning iron. 3 They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods[a] that God created to be accepted with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided that it is received with thanksgiving,
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- 1 Timothy 4:3 They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods: this asceticism was not from the Bible but from the erroneous belief that the material world was evil, which was a principal tenet of Gnosticism.