What do the Scriptures principally teach?

Scripture proofs

• 2 Timothy 3:16-17

  Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

• John 20:31

  but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

• Acts 24:14

  But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

• 1 Corinthians 10:11

  Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

• Ecclesiastes 12:13

  This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (public domain).