2 Timothy 3:16

3:16 Every scripture ¹  is inspired by God ²  and useful for teaching, for reproof, ³  for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:10

Continue in What You Have Learned

3:10 You, however, ⁴  have followed my teaching, my ⁵  way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

2 Timothy 4:3

4:3 For there will be a time when people ⁶  will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, ⁷  they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things. ⁸ 

¹ tn Or “All scripture.”

² sn Inspired by God. Some have connected this adjective in a different way and translated it as “every inspired scripture is also useful.” But this violates the parallelism of the two adjectives in the sentence, and the arrangement of words makes clear that both should be taken as predicate adjectives: “every scripture is inspired…and useful.”

³ tn Or “rebuke,” “censure.” The Greek word implies exposing someone’s sin in order to bring correction.

⁴ sn There is a strong emphasis on the pronoun you in contrast to the people described in vv. 2-9.

⁵ tn The possessive “my” occurs only at the beginning of the list but is positioned in Greek to apply to each of the words in the series.

⁷ tn Grk “they”; the referent (the people in that future time) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Grk “in accord with.”

⁹ tn Grk “having an itching in regard to hearing,” “having itching ears.”