Rom 15:4, 1Cor 9:10, 10:6, 11, 2Ti 3:16-17 | ESV | STEP | For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction , that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope .

Romans 15:4

4 For ^awhatever was written in former days was written for our ^binstruction, that through endurance and through ^cthe encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

1 Corinthians 9:10

10 Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written ^dfor our sake, because ^ethe plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

1 Corinthians 10:6

6 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as ^fthey did.

1 Corinthians 10:11

11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but ^gthey were written down for our instruction, ^hon whom the end of the ages has come.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

16 ⁱAll Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that ^jthe man of God ^{▼▼That is, a messenger of God (the phrase echoes a common Old Testament expression)} may be complete, ^lequipped ^mfor every good work.