Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation We have not been misled by any evil product of human skill, by any useless object painted by some artist, or by any idol smeared with different colors. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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 15:2For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy greatness: and if we sin not, we know that we are counted with thee. Wisdom 15:3 For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality. Wisdom 15:5 The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image. Wisdom 15:6 The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to trust in, both they that make them, and they that love them, and they that worship them. Context Wisdom 15…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, 5The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image.… Cross References 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 15:3 For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality. Wisdom 15:5 The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image. Wisdom 15:6 The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to trust in, both they that make them, and they that love them, and they that worship them. |