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, because everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected if it is[a] received with thankfulness, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 4:4 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“received”) which is understood as conditional