Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Knowing you is perfect righteousness. Recognizing your power is where immortality begins. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality. Wisdom 15:1But thou, our God, art gracious and true, patient, and ordering all things in mercy. Wisdom 15:2 For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy greatness: and if we sin not, we know that we are counted with thee. Wisdom 15:4 For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours, Wisdom 15:5 The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image. Context Wisdom 15…2For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy greatness: and if we sin not, we know that we are counted with thee. 3For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality. 4For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours,… Cross References Wisdom 15:1 But thou, our God, art gracious and true, patient, and ordering all things in mercy. Wisdom 15:2 For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy greatness: and if we sin not, we know that we are counted with thee. Wisdom 15:4 For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours, Wisdom 15:5 The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image. |