Our Sufficient Revelation

// All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work //

2 Timothy 3:16-17

// You shall not add to the Word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God //

Deuteronomy 4:2

// Every Word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His Words, lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar //

Proverbs 30:5-6

// Why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition! Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, saying: These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. In vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men //

Matthew 15:3, 6-9

// These Jews were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so //

Acts 17:11

// To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them //

Isaiah 8:20

Our Final Authority

// We believe, teach, and confess that the sole rule and standard according to which all dogmas together with all teachers should be estimated and judged are the prophetic and apostolic Scriptures of the Old and of the New Testaments alone, as it is written Psalm 119:105: Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. And St. Paul: Though an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you, let him be accursed, Galatians 1:8 //

The Epitome, Art. 1

// The Supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture //

Westminster Confession, 1:10

// Although the Church be a witness and a keeper of Holy Scripture, yet, as it ought not to decree any thing against the same, so besides it ought not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation //

39 Articles of Religion, Art. 20

// Neither may we consider any writings of men, however holy they may have been, of equal value with those divine Scriptures, nor ought we to consider custom, or the great multitude, or antiquity, or succession of times and persons, or councils, decrees or statutes, as of equal value with the truth of God, since the truth is above all //

Belgic Confession, Art. 7