2 Timothy 3:15

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.”

— WEB

“And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.”

— KJV

“And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.”

— ASV

Cross-references

Related verses via the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Psalms 119:98-99 "Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me."
Luke 24:45 "Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures."
Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
2 Peter 1:20-21 "knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation."
Matthew 22:29 "But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God."
Luke 24:27 "Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself."
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 "For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,"
2 Timothy 1:5 "having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am p…"

Commentary

from a child--literally, "from an infant." The tender age of the first dawn of reason is that wherein the most lasting impressions of faith may be made. holy scriptures--The Old Testament taught by his Jewish mother. An undesigned coincidence with Ti2 1:5; Act 16:1-3. able--in themselves: though through men's own fault they often do not in fact make men savingly alive. wise unto salvation--that is, wise unto the attainment of salvation. Contrast "folly" (Ti2 3:9). Wise also in extending it to others. through faith--as the instrument of this wisdom. Each knows divine things only as far as his own experience in himself extends. He who has not faith, has not wisdom or salvation. which is in--that is, rests on Christ Jesus.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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