Key Verse Spotlight
1 Timothy 4:5 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.”
1 Timothy 4:5
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Forbidding 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.
For every creature of God {is} good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself {rather} unto godliness.
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