Wisdom 15:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy greatness: and if we sin not, we know that we are counted with thee.

³ For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality.

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,