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They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods[a] that God created to be accepted with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.
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  1. 1 Timothy 4:3 They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods: this asceticism was not from the Bible but from the erroneous belief that the material world was evil, which was a principal tenet of Gnosticism.