All Scripture

 All Scripture 

October 23, 2025

2 Timothy 3:16

16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

In his teaching on The Sword of the Spirit, Derek Prince, who was a tremendous Greek and biblical scholar, pointed out that the meaning of “all” in this passage, when we look deep into the original language, is…. “All”. Every last portion of scripture is inspired by God and useful. From Genesis to Revelation, every scripture has meaning and serves some purpose. Even the so called “minor prophets” are not less important, it is just that they wrote less than the “major prophets”. We all have our favorite verses, but we need to not overlook the rest. I spent some time as a member of a church that styled itself as “a New Testament Church”. This is all well and good, but they tended to not teach much, if any, out of the Old Testament. This is a problem because you need the Old Testament to understand the New. “In the old the new is concealed , and in the new the old is revealed” is how one Bible teacher put it. 

There are some “progressive” preachers today that pick and choose which verses to believe and teach. This leads to error if you allow your preconceived notions to overrule what the whole of scripture teaches. If we are going to use the word of God as a two edged sword of the Spirit, we need to use both edges, old and new, to combat the evil in this age.