Doctors spend years in preparation so they can prescribe the correct medicine. Druggists invest a great deal of time learning to prepare what the doctors order. When both are done with their work, the patient must still take his medicine if he is to benefit from any of this effort and preparation. The Scriptures must be studied. Their contents must be understood, then faithfully applied with care to the individual situation.
Some Scripture is designed for teaching.
Other is intended for reproof, other for correction. Part of it is given for positive instruction in righteousness. The medicine is well prepared. Wisdom is needed only in diagnosing the malady and administering the remedy. If the Bible has ever appeared to be irrelevant, it is because someone either did not give the part of it that was needful or those who needed it did not receive it to their profit.