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  • 1 Timothy 4:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 5 for it is sanctified through God’s word and prayer over it.

  • 1 Timothy 4:5
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 5 ἁγιάζεται it is being sanctified γὰρ for διὰ through λόγου word θεοῦ of God καὶ and ἐντεύξεως. intercession.

  • 1 Timothy 4:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 5 for it is sanctified* through God’s word and prayer over [it].

  • 1 Timothy 4:5
    The Bible in Living English
    • 5 for it is hallowed by God’s word and invocation.

  • 1 Timothy 4:5
    American Standard Version
    • 5 for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

  • 1 Timothy 4:5
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 5 For it is hallowed by the word of God and intercession.

  • 1 Timothy 4:5
    King James Version
    • 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

  • 1 Timothy
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 4:5 it-2 859

  • 1 Timothy
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 4:5 w78 3/15 15; w76 549; w75 542; ad 1444

  • 1 Timothy
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 4:5

      Insight, Volume 2, p. 859

  • 1 Timothy Study Notes—Chapter 4
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 4:5

      it is sanctified through God’s word: Christians rightly view all food as sanctified, or holy, because they are not under the dietary restrictions of the Mosaic Law. (See study note on 1Ti 4:3.) When Jehovah declares a thing clean, it is clean. For example, the apostle Peter was told in a vision: “Stop calling defiled the things God has cleansed.”​—Ac 10:10-15.

      prayer over it: Food is sanctified not only by God’s “word” but also by prayer. The one praying acknowledges that God is the Provider and accepts food as a gift from Him. So a Christian may eat it, confident that doing so does not defile him in God’s eyes.​—Ge 1:29; 9:3; Mt 14:19; Lu 9:16.

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