4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
4 Everything God created is good, and to be received with thanks. Nothing is to be sneered at and thrown out.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;
4 Since everything God created is good, we should not reject any of it but receive it with thanks.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Timothy 4:4
Commentary on 1 Timothy 4:1-5
(Read 1 Timothy 4:1-5)
The Holy Spirit, both in the Old and the New Testament, spoke of a general turning from the faith of Christ, and the pure worship of God. This should come during the Christian dispensation, for those are called the latter days. False teachers forbid as evil what God has allowed, and command as a duty what he has left indifferent. We find exercise for watchfulness and self-denial, in attending to the requirements of God's law, without being tasked to imaginary duties, which reject what he has allowed. But nothing justifies an intemperate or improper use of things; and nothing will be good to us, unless we seek by prayer for the Lord's blessing upon it.