II Peter 1:20,21

II Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. When we read the Bible it is instructive. That means that the Bible teaches us things. But some verses are hard to understand. They may seem to be saying something that is hard to believe. So what is the best way to understand these hard verses? It is to read other verses on the subject and to let them explain what the hard verses is saying. Our verses say that no verse can be taken by itself. Each verse must be taken as one of many verses. We should ask, "What does the whole Bible say about the topic?" We should not ask, "What does this single verse say?" God spoke through 40 different men to write the Scriptures. And each one of these men agreed with the other men. That is because God is the real author of the Bible. He spoke through the 40 men who actually did the writing. We can trust the Bible. There are no errors in the Bible. If there seems to be a mistake or a disagreement between different verses, we should read them closer and try to understand what they are saying. You can trust what the Bible says.