⁴ Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

¹¹ Now these things were done as an example; and were put down in writing for our teaching, on whom the last days have come.

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.

²³ Now, it was not because of him only that this was said,

²⁴ But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,

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.

⁹ For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?

¹⁰ Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.