“and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

2 Tim 3:15-17

The whole Bible is God’s inspired Word: ‘All Scripture is God-breathed’ (v 16). The word used here is theopneustos, a combination of two other Greek words, theos (God) and pneo (breathe). This is one of the greatest texts in the New Testament. It means ‘breathed out,’ in contrast with the breathing in of the breath of life when Adam was created.3 Because it is inspired and trustworthy, it is our standard for testing everything and our source of guidance for how to live. We need to read it regularly.

CLOSING PRAYER

Thank you, Almighty God, for the gift of the Bible – your story that, beginning to end, tells me of your love for me and your plan for my life with you. Use it to remind me that you walk with me both in good and difficult times; help me to use each day to bring you praise.

(from Encounter with God)