All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word.
“The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me; his word is on my tongue.
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”
how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,
an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst.
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—
But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.
There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; whoever hates reproof will die.
“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.
But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone,
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement: “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’
And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Has the Lord grown impatient? Are these his deeds? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?
But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”
He said to them, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,
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