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2 Timothy 3:16-17. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking,
correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be
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thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Peter 1:20-21. Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came
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about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its
origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were
carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Joshua 1:8. Do not let this book depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night,
so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous
and successful.

When Paul returned to Lystra a couple of years after his first visit, Paul invited Timothy to travel with
him – that would have been on Paul’s third missionary journey.
Timothy helped Paul to establish churches at Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea (Acts 16:1-17:14).

Timothy was a trustworthy friend who delivered the offering collected by the Philippian church to care
for Paul’s needs in Corinth. During the three years Paul was in Ephesus teaching them about the
amazing power of God, Timothy was there, too. When Paul was imprisoned in Rome for two years,
Timothy was right alongside him much of the time unselfishly taking care of Paul’s needs. By now,
Timothy was a young man of about 30 who for at least 13 years had been learning how to teach about
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