Lloyd-Jones on context and Scripture

More gold from Mr Lloyd-Jones in my quiet time this morning.

"Nothing, incidentally is more dangerous in reading or interpreting scripture than to take a single statement right out of its context and elaborate a theory or doctrine upon it. That has generally been what has happened in every heresy and in every error in the long history of the Church. It is this fatal habit of men and women of jumping on to texts, as it were, and saying, 'The Bible says this - therefore...' And they forget the context; they forget that Scripture must always be compared with Scripture; that scripture never contradicts itself, and that there is a homogenous collation and unity about the message of the bible from beginning to end."