Romans 4:23

For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through the perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have arrived.

All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness,