The necessity of being acquainted with all Scripture is seen in the account of the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. And when the devil tried to induce Him to throw himself down from the pinnacle of the temple, saying, "It is written, He shall give His angels charge concerning you; and in their hands they shall bear you up, lest haply you dash your foot against a stone," (Matthew 4:6)
Jesus instantly replied, "Again it is written, You shall not tempt the Lord your God." (" (Matthew 4:6))
By this the Saviour did not mean that the verse He quoted contradicted or even modified the other; but it was the shortest way of indicating that the passage in the Psalms does not justify presumption. It applies, as is plainly evident from the context, to God's people in troubles that come upon them, and not to those into which people may capriciously jump.
Jesus would not discuss the meaning of texts of Scripture with the devil, but silenced him with a text which made it evident that he had perverted Scripture.
So while we are always to take every text just as it reads, the more Scripture we know and remember, the less are we liable to misread any portion of it, thoughtlessly assuming that it says what it does not.--Present Truth, May 29, 1902--Timeline: II-3 (The Temptation)--Matthew 4:6-7.