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explain how "...the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." through Scripture if it is not sufficient

The man of God will be complete if he learns the Holy Tradition (2 Tim 3:14) as well as Holy Scripture (2 Tim 3:15) which two together are sufficient, just as the Catholic Church teaches.

Read the scripture with love and attention and you, too, will become Catholic.

The man of God will be complete if he learns the Holy Tradition (2 Tim 3:14) as well as Holy Scripture (2 Tim 3:15) which two together are sufficient, just as the Catholic Church teaches.

Matt 15:6-9
"Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:"

“‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.

The man of God will be complete if he learns the Holy Tradition (2 Tim 3:14) as well as Holy Scripture (2 Tim 3:15) which two together are sufficient, just as the Catholic Church teaches.

That's not what the verse says...Why don't you quote it the way it's written???

It says follow the tradition, whether it is oral OR written...That either allows you to chose between the two, OR, the oral and the written are the same thing...

2Th 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Read the scripture with love and attention and you, too, will become Catholic.

That's only if you pervert the scriptures as you read them...I read the scriptures with belief in what it says, therefore, I couldn't possibly become a Catholic...

The man of God will be complete if he learns the Holy Tradition (2 Tim 3:14) as well as Holy Scripture (2 Tim 3:15) which two together are sufficient, just as the Catholic Church teaches.

That's not what the Bible teaches, however.

2 Timothy 3:14-17 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

Catholics claim that the Catholic church wrote the Bible and yet here we have another contradiction. Paul says in Scripture that Scripture is enough. The Catholic church is saying that he's wrong.

Why did the Catholic church then put something in the Bible that it had to contradict later?

This is playing both sides against the middle. Catholics want to have their cake and eat it too. It just doesn't work.

explain how "...the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." through Scripture if it is not sufficient

The man of God will be complete if he learns the Holy Tradition (2 Tim 3:14) as well as Holy Scripture (2 Tim 3:15) which two together are sufficient, just as the Catholic Church teaches.

Paul speaks in the present and past tense. Nowhere does he even hint that it would be fine to "invent" Tradition as required.

Read the scripture with love and attention and you, too, will become Catholic.

I am among the countless millions who found it necessary to leave the corrupted Catholic Church because of the attention and love of Scripture.