Does 2 Timothy 3:16, the passage that says all Scripture's inspired, refer only
to the Old Testament or also to the New Testament to come? Let's see.
In 2 Timothy 3:16, Paul makes a statement about the authority of Scripture.
He says that all Scripture is God-breathed, inspired. It is given by God
for teaching, reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, that the man
or woman of God might be complete and adequate for everything that God wanted
that person to do. Now, the question is, was that just applying to the Old
Testament Scripture, which had already been given, and Paul made reference to
just a few verses above. Well certainly applies to that. But notice what it says
is "all grafi" in the Greek – all the writings. All the writings that were
sacred Scripture. It turns out that there were more writings to come that the
apostles and the body of Christ would recognize as on par with the sacred
scriptures of the Old Testament. In fact, Peter says that some of Paul's writing
is hard to understand as is the rest of the scripture that people distort. So
he's grouping Paul's writings in there. There's another reference in the New
Testament where "the worker is worthy of his wages" and "don't muzzle the ox while
he's threshing," one of those references is to the Old Testament Scriptures, but
one is to a statement of Jesus that you find in the gospels. So clearly the
person quoting those passages was considering the writings of the gospels
on par with the Old Testament scriptures. So you have both in view. When Paul is
validating the authority of the God-breathed Scripture, he is not just
speaking of those sacred writings that had come before, but he's also including, or
leaving open the possibility, of sacred writings that will come later and the
New Testament period. And it turns out that Paul's own writing right there was
an example of that.
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