From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
The deepest impressions of faith are stamped on the soul in infancy, before reason fully wakes. The Scriptures themselves are able to make wise unto salvation, though many fail to find that wisdom through their own fault. Without faith, no one grasps divine things; faith alone is the instrument by which the Scriptures convey their saving power.
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Timothy's pious mother, a faithful Hebrewess, trained him in Scripture from infancy, as the Jewish people held sacred. This early instruction took root and bore lasting fruit in his piety. Parents ought to teach the Bible to children as soon as they can learn, trusting that such seed will not be lost but will shape their whole lives toward God.
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Timothy had watched my life match my doctrine, I did not pull down by living what I built by preaching. A minister whose manner of life contradicts his teaching cannot expect to profit the people at all.
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Commenting on 2 Timothy 3:10-17