^16 (A)All Scripture is ^[a]inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for ^[b]rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness;

²⁰ But ^(A)know this first of all, that ^(B)no prophecy of Scripture ^[a]becomes a matter of ^[b]someone’s own interpretation, ²¹ for ^(C)no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men ^(D)moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

² God ^(A)has not rejected His people whom He ^(B)foreknew. ^(C)Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

¹⁸ For the Scripture says, “^(A)You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing,” and “^(B)The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

¹⁵ and regard the ^(A)patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also ^(B)our beloved brother Paul, ^(C)according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, ¹⁶ as also in all his letters, speaking in them of ^(D)these things, ^(E)in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and ^(F)unstable distort, as they do also ^(G)the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.