1 Timothy 4:5
Good News Translation
because the word of God and the prayer make it acceptable to God.

New Revised Standard Version
for it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.

Contemporary English Version
What God has said and your prayer will make it fit to eat.

New American Bible
for it is made holy by the invocation of God in prayer.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

Luke 11:41 But yet that which remaineth, give alms: and behold, all things are clean unto you.

1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife: and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband. Otherwise your children should be unclean: but now they are holy.

Titus 1:15 All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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Luke 4:4 And Jesus answered him: is written that Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every word of God.

Context
Warnings against False Teachers
4For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving: 5For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. 6These things proposing to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished up in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which thou hast attained unto.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:25
And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:31
And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

Hebrews 11:3
By faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of God: that from invisible things visible things might be made.

1 Timothy 4:4
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