²⁰ Have I not put in writing for you thirty sayings, with wise suggestions and knowledge,

⁶ Give ear, for my words are true, and my lips are open to give out what is upright.

⁶ The words of the Lord are true words: like silver tested by fire and burned clean seven times.

¹² Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

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.

¹⁶ Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:

¹⁷ So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.

¹⁹ And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;

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.