Yes, of course.
At the moment that these epistles were written, there would have only been one copy - that sent to the sendee. It will take hundreds of years to have multiple copies circulating around the Christian world. The ONLY scripture that was referred to as being profitable is the OT.
Same as what the Bereans were reading.
So if only the OT is profitable, and equally as profitable, then I would be more inclined to agree with Paul. I certainly do not equate a list of begets with any of Jesus’ words.
Allow me to retract.
Not that I wouldn’t agree with Paul. But more inclined to go along with that interpretation of Paul.
Apologies.
You might want to check this “It will take hundreds of years to have multiple copies circulating around the Christian world” ... depending upon the quantity you choose to name, there were within weeks, copies of the letters sent to a church, and these copies were distributed among the churches which were a mere 30 to 50 or less miles apart. A woman like Lydia, for instance, would have had a scribe working for her in business and able to clip off a dozen copies in a matter of a week and in another week have them circulating to the other churches. Something so prescious would not have been ‘stuffed under a bushel’. The Armenian Church, for instance, has copies of very early copies!