Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation If the righteous really are God's children, God will save them from their enemies. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge For if he be the true son of God, he will defend him, and will deliver him from the hands of his enemies. Wisdom 2:16We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father. Wisdom 2:17 Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be. Wisdom 2:19 Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness, and try his patience. Wisdom 2:20 Let us condemn him to a most shameful death: for there shall be respect had unto him by his words. Context Wisdom 2…17Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be. 18For if he be the true son of God, he will defend him, and will deliver him from the hands of his enemies. 19Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness, and try his patience.… Cross References Wisdom 2:16 We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father. Wisdom 2:17 Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be. Wisdom 2:19 Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness, and try his patience. Wisdom 2:20 Let us condemn him to a most shameful death: for there shall be respect had unto him by his words. |