¹⁵ And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

⁵ Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.

²⁰ Being conscious in the first place that no man by himself may give a special sense to the words of the prophets.

²¹ For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

⁹⁸ Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.

⁹⁹ I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.

⁷ The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

¹⁷ Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.

⁶ If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

²⁹ But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.

²⁷ And he made clear to them all the things in the Writings, from Moses and from all the prophets, which had to do with himself.

⁴⁵ Then he made the holy Writings clear to their minds.

⁴³ To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.

²⁹ And when they had done all the things said in the Writings about him, they took him down from the tree, and put him in the place of the dead.

²⁶ But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;

³ For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;

⁴ And he was put in the place of the dead; and on the third day he came back from the dead, as it says in the Writings;

¹⁰ For the prophets who gave the news of the grace which would come to you, made search with all care for knowledge of this salvation;

¹¹ Attempting to see what sort of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when it gave witness to the pains which Christ would undergo and the glories which would come after them.

¹² And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.

² Of which God had given word before by his prophets in the holy Writings,

³⁸ And so, let it be clear to you, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is offered to you:

³⁹ And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.

¹⁸ But Samuel did the work of the Lord's house, while he was a child, dressed in a linen ephod.

³ In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.

¹⁷ O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

¹ Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

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¹⁵ For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.

⁴⁰ And the child became tall and strong and full of wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.

³² And they said to one another, Were not our hearts burning in us while he was talking to us on the way, making clear to us the holy Writings?

³⁹ You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.

⁴⁰ And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.

¹⁰ And I went on my face before his feet to give him worship. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers who keep the witness of Jesus: give worship to God: for the witness of Jesus is the spirit of the prophet's word.

¹¹ And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

¹² He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

¹⁶ And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.

² And Paul, as he generally did, went in to them, and on three Sabbath days had discussions with them from the holy Writings,