Bible Strands
1 Timothy 4:5
because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul writes to Timothy to correct false teachers who forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods God created. This instruction addresses the immediate context of receiving God's creation with thanksgiving.
The words — The Greek ἁγιάζεται (hagiazetai) literally means "it is sanctified," indicating a passive divine action. The preposition διὰ (dia) shows this sanctification occurs through the word of God and prayer.
The thread — The concept of sanctification through divine means echoes 1 Corinthians 7:14, where an unbelieving spouse is set apart through a believing partner. The warning against rejecting God's creation parallels the false teaching condemned in 1 Timothy 4:3.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to accept God's created provisions without ascetic rejection. It demands reliance on Scripture and prayer as the mechanisms that establish what is received as holy.
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The Greek words
King James Version
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Cross-references
- 1 Timothy 4:3 They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
- Luke 4:4 But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”
- 1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
- Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
- Luke 11:41 But give as alms the things that are within you, and behold, everything will be clean for you.
- Genesis 1:25 God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:31 And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.