Wisdom 15:3
Good News Translation
Knowing you is perfect righteousness. Recognizing your power is where immortality begins.

New Revised Standard Version
For to know you is complete righteousness, and to know your power is the root of immortality.

Contemporary English Version
Nothing is more fitting than knowing you and realizing that your power is the way to endless life.

New American Bible
For to know you well is complete righteousness, and to know your might is the root of immortality.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality.

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 15:1
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.

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.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 15:2
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