- No, the lambs ain't gonna buy it--but we should be willing to be corrected-
2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for restoration, and for training in righteousness,
2Ti 3:17 so that the person belonging to God may be capable, fully equipped for every good deed.
All: 2Sa_23:2; Mat_21:42, Mat_22:31-32, Mat_22:43, Mat_26:54, Mat_26:56; Mar_12:24, Mar_12:36; Joh_10:35; Act_1:16, Act_28:25; Rom_3:2, Rom_15:4; Gal_3:8; Heb_3:7, Heb_4:12; 2Pe_1:19-21
and is: Psa_19:7-11, Psa_119:97-104, Psa_119:130; Mic_2:7; Act_20:20, Act_20:27; 1Co_12:7; Eph_4:11-16
for doctrine: 2Ti_3:10
for reproof: 2Ti_4:2; Pro_6:23, Pro_15:10, Pro_15:31; Joh_3:20; Eph_5:11-13; Heb_11:1 *Gr.
for instruction: 2Ti_2:25; Deu_4:36; Neh_9:20; Psa_119:9, Psa_119:11; Mat_13:52; Act_18:25; Rom_2:20
1) "All scripture is given by inspiration of God" (pasa graphe theopneustos) "Every scripture (is) God-breathed, inspired;"
This means every sacred writing which is inspired of God is also profitable; Sacred writings of false religions were neither inspired nor profitable; 2Pe_1:20-21.
2) "And is profitable for" (kai opelemos pros) "Even profitable for;" Rom_15:4; 1Co_10:11; Psa_119:9-10; Psa_119:105; Psa_119:130.
a) "Doctrine" (didaskalian) "Teaching," Mat_28:20; Mat_24:35.
b) "For reproof" (pros elegmon) "For reproof," chiding for wrong, Pro_10:17; Pro_29:15.
c) "For correction" (pros epanorthosin) "For correction," making orthodox, true, or correct, Pro_3:11; Pro_22:15; Pro_23:13.
d) "For instruction in righteousness" (pros paideian ten en dikaosune) "For child-training in righteousness," for disciplinary purposes, Heb_12:5; Pro_12:1; Pro_13:1; Pro_15:32-33.
- Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable (pāsa graphē theopneustos kai ōphelimos). There are two matters of doubt in this clause. One is the absence of the article hē before graphē, whether that makes it mean “every scripture” or “all scripture” as of necessity if present.
Unfortunately, there are examples both ways with both pās and graphē. Twice we find graphē in the singular without the article and yet definite (1Pe_2:6; 2Pe_1:20). We have pās Israēl (Rom_11:26) for all Israel (Robertson, Grammar, p. 772).
So far as the grammatical usage goes, one can render here either “all scripture” or “every scripture.” There is no copula (estin) in the Greek and so one has to insert it either before the kai or after it. If before, as is more natural, then the meaning is: “All scripture (or every scripture) is inspired of God and profitable.” In this form there is a definite assertion of inspiration. That can be true also of the second way, making “inspired of God” descriptive of “every scripture,” and putting estin (is) after kai: “All scripture (or every scripture), inspired of God, is also profitable.”
Inspired of God (theopneustos). “God-breathed.” Late word (Plutarch) here only in N.T. Perhaps in contrast to the commandments of men in Tit_1:14.
Profitable (ōphelimos). See note on 1Ti_4:8. See Rom_15:4. Four examples of pros (facing, with a view to, for): didaskalian, teaching; elegmon, reproof, in lxx and here only in N.T.; epanorthōsin, correction, old word, from epanorthoō, to set up straight in addition, here only in N.T., with which compare epidiorthoō in Tit_1:5; paideian, instruction, with which compare Eph_6:4.
Robertson.
Serious consequences for people to think that Scripture are "dead letters"
Later
J.