Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation The sight of such things arouses the passions of foolish people and makes them desire a dead, lifeless image. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image. Wisdom 15:3For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality. 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 15:6 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. Wisdom 15:7 The potter also tempering soft earth, with labour fashioneth every vessel for our service, and of the same clay he maketh both vessels that are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of these vessels, the potter is the judge. Context Wisdom 15…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. 6The 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.… Cross References Wisdom 15:3 For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality. Wisdom 15:4 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 15:6 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. Wisdom 15:7 The potter also tempering soft earth, with labour fashioneth every vessel for our service, and of the same clay he maketh both vessels that are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of these vessels, the potter is the judge. |