J. C. Ryle and the Revised Version's translation of 2 Timothy 3:16

[Reformed Covenanter]

I take occasion to say that I decline to admit the correctness of the translation of 2 Tim. 3. 16, which is given in the Revised Version. I stand firmly by the Authorized Version of the text, in company with Chrysostom and Bengel, and I maintain that the translation of this verse given by the Revisers is a strained, harsh, and unnatural rendering of the Greek words. The translation ‘all scripture’ is amply justified by ‘all flesh’ in Luke 3. 6.

J. C. Ryle, ‘Hold Fast. The Fourth Triennial Charge to the Diocese of Liverpool, November 4, 1890’ in Charges and Addresses (1903; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2021), p. 242.