Wisdom 2:22-24

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²² and they did not know the secret purposes of God,
nor hoped for the wages of holiness,
nor discerned the prize for blameless souls;
²³ for God created us for incorruption,
and made us in the image of his own eternity,^[a]
24 but through the devil’s envy death entered the world,
and those who belong to his company experience it.