perverts the natural meaning with false interpretations? Paul has good reason to recall us to faith in Christ, which is the center and sum of Scripture. What now follows also depends on faith. 16. All Scripture—or “the whole of Scripture,” although it makes no difference to the meaning. Paul now explains more fully his brief commendation. First, he commends the Scripture because of its authority and then because of the benefit it brings. In order to assert its authority, Paul teaches that it is God-breathed,
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