Can the Bible Be Trusted?

¹And heaven and earth and all their array were finished.

¹“Now this is the commandment, the rules and the regulations, that Yahweh your God charged to teach to you for you to observe in the land that you are about to cross over into to take possession of it,

¹“All of the commandments that I am commanding you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and multiply, and you may go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors.

¹My God, my God why have you forsaken me? Why are you far from helping me, far from the words of my groaning?

¹so that he drove him out, and so he departed. I will bless Yahweh at all times; his praise shall be in my mouth continually.

¹Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of Yahweh.

¹An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. “Thus declares Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, founds the earth, and forms the spirit of humankind in its midst:

¹At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. And his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck off heads of grain and eat them.

¹And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness ²forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was hungry. ³So the devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, order this stone that it become bread!” ⁴And Jesus replied to him, “It is written, ‘Man will not live on bread alone.’ ” ⁵And he led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. ⁶And the devil said to him, “I will give you all this domain and their glory, because it has been handed over to me, and I can give it to whomever I want. ⁷So if you will worship before me, all this will be yours.” ⁸And Jesus answered and said to him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’ ” ⁹And he brought him to Jerusalem, and had him stand on the highest point of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, ¹⁰for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,’ ¹¹and ‘on their hands they will lift you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’ ” ¹²And Jesus answered and said to him, “It is said, ‘You are not to put to the test the Lord your God.’ ”

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²This one was in the beginning with God. ³All things came into being through him, and apart from him not one thing came into being that has come into being. ⁴In him was life, and the life was the light of humanity. ⁵And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. ⁶A man came, sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷This one came for a witness, in order that he could testify about the light, so that all would believe through him. ⁸That one was not the light, but came in order that he could testify about the light. ⁹The true light, who gives light to every person, was coming into the world. ¹⁰He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, and the world did not recognize him. ¹¹He came to his own things, and his own people did not receive him. ¹²But as many as received him—to those who believe in his name—he gave to them authority to become children of God, ¹³who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a husband, but of God. ¹⁴And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and we saw his glory, glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.

¹And as he went away, he saw a man blind from birth.

¹But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come,

¹²And indeed, all those who want to live in a godly manner in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. ¹³But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived. ¹⁴But you continue in the things which you have learned and are convinced of, because you know from whom you learned them, ¹⁵and that from childhood you have known the holy writings that are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, ¹⁷in order that the person of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

¹I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom, ²preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all patience and instruction. ³For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound teaching, but in accordance with their own desires, they will accumulate for themselves teachers, because they have an insatiable curiosity,

¹Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a faith equal in value to ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.

¹⁶For we did not make known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ by following ingeniously concocted myths, but by being eyewitnesses of that one’s majesty.

²⁰recognizing this above all, that every prophecy of scripture does not come about from one’s own interpretation, ²¹for no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.