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Scripture is All You Need
Commentators emphasize that Scripture is completely sufficient to make a believer 'complete.' It provides all the instruction, guidance, and principles needed for every situation and every good work. As Albert Barnes notes, a believer can never advance so far in holiness or knowledge that they outgrow the Bible; it is a perfect and complete guide for the entire Christian life.
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2 Timothy
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Timothy 3:17
18th Century
Theologian
That the man of God may be perfect. The object is not merely to convince and to convert him; it is to furnish all the instruction needed f…
AT Robertson
On 2 Timothy 3:17
The man of God (ο του θεου ανθρωπος). See 1 Timothy 6:11.
May be complete (ινα η αρτιος). Fina…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Timothy 3:17
19th Century
Bishop
That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.—The “man of God” here is no official designa…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Timothy 3:17
“All Scripture is God-breathed.” The adjective used here is theopneustos (GK 2535), which is a combination of two other Greek words: theos (“God”; …
John Calvin
On 2 Timothy 3:17
16th Century
Theologian
That the man of God may be perfect. Perfect means here a blameless person, one in whom there is nothing defective; for he asserts…
John Gill
On 2 Timothy 3:17
17th Century
Pastor
That the man of God may be perfect
By the man of God may be meant everyone that in a special relation belongs to God…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Timothy 3:14–17
17th Century
Minister
Those who seek to learn the things of God, and be assured of them, must know the Holy Scriptures, for they are the Divine revelation. The age of ch…