human
Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness. This is the Revisers' rendering. Besides one or two smaller changes, they have made two important alterations of the A. V. (1) They have substituted
gpt
for
human
without allowing the old rendering even a place in the margin. (2) They have inserted the
gpt
(which _must_ be supplied somewhere in the sentence) _after_ instead of _before_
human
thus making
gpt
an epithet of Scripture and not something stated respecting it.
human
Every scripture inspired by God _is also_ profitable, instead of
gpt
rather than
human
But, with regard to the first point, it may be doubted whether the balance is so decidedly against the translation
gpt
as to warrant its exclusion. No doubt the absence of the article in the Greek (πᾶσα γραφή, and not πᾶσα ἡ γραφή) is against the old rendering; but it is by no means conclusive, as other instances both in the New Testament and in classical Greek prove.[95] Nevertheless, there is the further fact that in the New Testament
human
generally means a particular passage of Scripture (Mark xii. 10; Luke iv. 21; John xix. 24, 28, 36, 37; Acts viii. 32, 35). When Scripture as a whole is meant, the word, is commonly used in the plural,
gpt
(Matt. xxi. 42; Mark xii. 24; John v. 39). In the passage before us the meaning is not seriously affected by the change. It matters little whether we say
human
or
gpt
Every scripture inspired by God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for discipline (παιδεία) which is in righteousness: _i.e._, is of use both for doctrinal and for practical purposes, for informing both faith and conduct. It is because it is