16 *All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that *the man of God* may be complete, *equipped *for every good work.

15 and how *from childhood you have been acquainted with *the sacred writings, *which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 *All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that *the man of God* may be complete, *equipped *for every good work.

20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. 21 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.

15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,* a worker *who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; *reprove, rebuke, and *exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

12 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.

35 *Heaven and earth will pass away, but *my words will not pass away.

4 But he answered, *"It is written,

*"‘Man shall not live by bread alone,

but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’"

10 *"For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven

and do not return there but water the earth,

making it bring forth and sprout,

*giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;

it shall not return to me empty,

but *it shall accomplish that which I purpose,

and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

17 *Sanctify them*in the truth; *your word is truth.

39 *You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and *it is they that bear witness about me,

25 *but the word of the Lord remains forever."

And this word *is the good news that was preached to you.

9 How can *a young man keep his way pure?

By guarding it according to your word.

160 *The sum of your word is *truth,

and every one of your *righteous rules endures forever.

Sin and Shin

11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, *examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

2 And Paul went in, *as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them *from the Scriptures, 3 *explaining and proving that it was necessary for *the Christ to suffer and *to rise from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."

30 So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?" 31 And he said, *"How can I, unless someone *guides me?" And *he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this:

*"Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter

and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,

so he opens not his mouth.

35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and *beginning with this Scripture *he told him the good news about Jesus.

10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it *and to *teach his statutes and rules in Israel.

25 And he said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!26 *Was it not necessary that *the Christ should suffer these things and enter into *his glory?"27 And *beginning with *Moses and *all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

18 And Jesus came and said to them, *"All authority *in heaven and on earth has been given to me.19 *Go therefore and *make disciples of *all nations, *baptizing them *in**the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,20 teaching them *to observe all that *I have commanded you. And behold, *I am with you always, to *the end of the age."

7 And proclaim as you go, saying, *‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’*

8 Then the word of the Lord came to him,

1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:

19 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:

1 The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.*

8 And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,

4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah:

1 *The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,

because the Lord has *anointed me

to bring good news to the poor;*

he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

to proclaim liberty to the captives,

and *the opening of the prison to those who are bound;*

2 *to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,

*and the day of vengeance of our God;

to comfort all who mourn;

3 to grant to those who mourn in Zion—

*to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,

*the oil of gladness instead of mourning,

the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;

*that they may be called oaks of righteousness,

the planting of the Lord, *that he may be glorified.*

5 *Every word of God proves true;

he is *a shield to those who take refuge in him.

6 *Do not add to his words,

lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.

18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: *if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in *the tree of life and in *the holy city, which are described in this book.

6 I am astonished that you are *so quickly deserting *him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to *a different gospel— 7 *not that there is another one, but *there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or *an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, *let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, *let him be accursed.

15 And count *the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as *our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you *according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. *There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, *as they do the other Scriptures.

4 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.

14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him *of whom they have never heard?* And how are they to hear *without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, *"How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!" 16 But *they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, *"Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?" 17 So *faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

16 For *I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is *the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew *first and also to *the Greek. 17 For in it *the righteousness of God is revealed *from faith for faith,**as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."*

12 Now *we have received not *the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this *in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, *interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.*

14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are *folly to him, and *he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach* to save those who believe.

22 For *Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ *crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ *the power of God and *the wisdom of God.

17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and *not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

9 But you are *a chosen race, *a royal *priesthood, *a holy nation, *a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you *out of darkness into *his marvelous light.