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2 Timothy 3:16-17 vs. “Breathed Out By God (2 Timothy 3:16-17)”

Seeds Kids Worship (Seeds Family Worship) · checked 2026-08-21

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What we checked

Passage2 Timothy 3:16-17 chapter ↗
Translation shownBSB (Berean Standard Bible)
Presents itself asquotation
Categoryword-for-word ✓
AlbumTrust (Vol. 11) · 2018
Words addressed tonot addressed to God (sung about Him)
Teaching or experiencescripture set to music

Graded against the standard

Quotation criteria this song presents words as scripture, so these apply

✓Text-faithful
✓Translation named
✓Context kept

Applies to every song the Name held holy · God shown holy · true of God · the standard

✓Reverent treatment

✓ What's good

  • Both verses whole and in order, in the ESV's wording, with every repeated line drawn from the passage itself
  • The credit line names the text edition, not only the translation, so the exact text that was set can be opened and compared
  • The purpose clause is the chorus. The song does not stop at where Scripture came from; it sings what Scripture is for and who it finishes
  • The four uses are kept as four, in the passage's sequence, so the list is not thinned to the two that sing easily
  • The reference travels with the words, in the track title and the video title alike

⚠ Cautions

None. This is the standard, met.

Verse Proof

2 Timothy 3:16-17

The text in BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.”

Paul, writing to Timothy at Ephesus in what reads as his last surviving letter, from prison and expecting to die (4:6-8). The paragraph starts at 3:10, where Paul sets his own persecuted ministry against impostors who go from bad to worse (3:13). He then tells Timothy to continue in what he learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom he learned it (3:14), and reminds him that from childhood he has known the sacred writings, which are able to make him wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (3:15). Verses 16 and 17 are the reason that instruction holds: the writings are God's own breath, so they can do the four things listed, and the person they equip is finished for the work. The sentence runs straight on into 4:1-2, the charge to preach the word. So the “man of God” in view first is Timothy the minister, a title Paul had already used of him in 1 Timothy 6:11, and the four uses named are a preacher's uses before they are anyone else's.

WHAT THE SONG SINGS — 2 Timothy 3:16-17, complete, ESV, version and text edition both named on the chord chart

The song is the two verses, sung whole and in order, for children. The verse section states that all Scripture is breathed out by God, then runs the four uses in the passage's own sequence, teaching, reproof, correction, training in righteousness. The chorus is verse 17, the purpose clause, sung as a pair of lines and repeated. Verse and chorus each come around again, a bridge sings the passage's opening clause three times with an echoed repeat of two of its words, and the outro sings that clause once more. Nothing from outside the passage is ever asserted. The only sung material the verses did not supply is a two-syllable interjection at the end of the bridge and outro, the kind of vocal filler that makes no statement.

The wording is the English Standard Version's, and Seeds says so on its own paperwork. The free chord chart the publisher hosts for the song carries a copyright line crediting the Holy Bible, English Standard Version, Crossway, and then goes one step further than most credit lines do: it names the text edition, 2007. The album page for *Trust* independently states “Scripture Version: ESV.”

Nothing in the passage shifted. The repeats are the passage's own words coming round again, and the bridge's echo doubles two words the verse already sang. The one honest addition is the interjection at the end of the bridge and the outro, two syllables of vocal filler that state nothing about God or the text. (The text shown above is BSB, because this site quotes freely usable translations, and the difference is instructive here. Where the BSB says God-breathed, the ESV says breathed out by God, which is where the song gets its title. Toggle to KJV and the same clause becomes given by inspiration of God. Three defensible renderings of one Greek word, and the reason the version has to be named before anyone can call a setting exact.)

✓ Word-for-Word Verified: Both verses in full, in the ESV's wording and the passage's order, with the version and its 2007 text edition named on the publisher's own chord chart.
The verse about where Scripture comes from is sung here in a version you can name and an edition you can open.

Why it matters

This is the verse that says where Scripture comes from, so a setting of it says something about its own method while it sings. The four uses are a list, and a song that keeps all four keeps the passage's argument intact: because the writings are God's breath, they can teach, reprove, correct and train, and the person they finish is equipped for every good work. Drop the purpose clause and the verse becomes a statement about the Bible's status with nothing attached to it. This song keeps the clause, and puts it in the chorus, which is the part a child will still be singing next week.

Is it safe to dwell on?

Sung on repeat, this song moves between God and the singer.

What a loop of this song plants is a sentence about the Bible and a sentence about the person the Bible makes. The centre of attention reads as mixed for that reason: half the sung words are about Scripture and its origin in God's breath, and half are about the man of God being completed and equipped. That human half is not the singer's story, though. It is what God's word does to a person, stated in the third person, so the song never turns into a song about the singer. A child who has this one memorized carries a working doctrine of Scripture before they can spell doctrine: where the words came from, four things they are for, and what they are meant to finish. Colossians 3:16 asks that the word of Christ dwell in us richly as we sing. Here the thing dwelling is the passage that says why the dwelling matters.

Helpful comparison

Seeds has set this passage twice, and the pair makes the point better than either song does alone. “Breathed Out,” from *The Word of God* (Vol. 8, 2013, written with Philip Morlan), and “Breathed Out By God,” from *Trust* (2018), sing the same ESV wording of the same two verses. Their charts do not carry the same paperwork. The 2013 chart ends its header at the writers and the copyright holder, with no translation credited anywhere on the page, and the 2013 album's product page names no Scripture version either. The 2017 chart for the later song adds the full Crossway credit line and the text edition. Same publisher, same lead writers, same words, four years apart, and only the second one hands the reader a version to check against. On this site that difference is not cosmetic. It is the line between `verified` and `faithful`.

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