In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” Great news. We like things that are profitable, things that are useful, things that have value and purpose. So it is good news when the Apostle tells us that all Scripture is profitable. And it is even God-breathed – inspired, as some translations render it.
Indeed, all Scripture is God-breathed, God-inspired. All Scripture is breathed out by God, because all Scripture is about God. Jesus is the sum total and the content of the Scriptures. The Law and the Psalms and the Prophets all testify of Him and His saving promises to the children of Israel. The Gospels and the Epistles and all the historical books all record the mighty acts of the Lord for His people. All Scripture is God-breathed, because all Scripture is God, enrobed in the mask of ordinary human words and phrases and sentences and grammar. And therefore, because God is true, faithful, and unchanging, so also is His Word always true, faithful, and unchanging. The Word of the Lord remains forever.
