Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Since people are amazed at the power of these things, and how they behave, they ought to learn from them that their maker is far more powerful. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Or if they admired their power, and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they: Wisdom 13:2But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world. Wisdom 13:3 With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things. Wisdom 13:5 For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby. Wisdom 13:6 But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him. Context Wisdom 13…3With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things. 4Or if they admired their power, and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they: 5For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.… Cross References Wisdom 13:2 But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world. Wisdom 13:3 With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things. Wisdom 13:5 For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby. Wisdom 13:6 But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him. |