1 Timothy 4:3

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”

while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for something I give thanks for?

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

He won’t regard the gods of his fathers, or the desire of women, or regard any god; for he will magnify himself above all.

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”

These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

As soon as you have come into the city, you will immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he comes, because he blesses the sacrifice. Afterwards those who are invited eat. Now therefore go up; for at this time you will find him.”

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.

He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.

and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave it to them.

However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, then he broke it and began to eat.

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”