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“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16).
Just about everything we buy today has an instruction manual. Cars have them, and today they can be quite thick and complicated. Other things like refrigerators, microwaves, vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, power drills — all of them come with a manual that shows us how to set them up and operate them.
Here in our verse today we have the perfect instruction manual for our life in the world — the Word of God. Of course, we can never know everything about God, but in His Word we find the knowledge of God. Whatever we need to know in this world in order to live to please the Lord, we can find in the knowledge of God through His Word. We have the perfect instruction book in the Bible.
Sometimes an instruction book in this world deceives us, for sometimes people make mistakes when they make the book. Sometimes we have a question that the manual does not answer. But the Word of God is perfect; it never makes any mistakes, and tells us all we need to know.
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