2 Timothy 3:10-17 - The Value Of The Scriptures

¹⁰ But you have intimately known my teaching, life, aims, faith, patience, love, resignation, ¹¹ and the persecutions and sufferings which I have endured; the things which happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra. You know the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all. ¹² And indeed every one who is determined to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted. ¹³ But bad men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, misleading and being misled. ¹⁴ But you must cling to the things which you have learnt and have been taught to believe, knowing who your teachers were, ¹⁵ and that from infancy you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise to obtain salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing; ¹⁷ so that the man of God may himself be complete and may be perfectly equipped for every good work.