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These people are hypocrites and liars, and their consciences are dead.[a]

They will say it is wrong to be married and wrong to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten with thanks by faithful people who know the truth. Since everything God created is good, we should not reject any of it but receive it with thanks.

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  1. 4:2 Greek are seared.

Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.(A) They 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. For everything God created is good,(F) and nothing is to be rejected(G) if it is received with thanksgiving,

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