Wisdom 15:1-3

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

15 But thou, our God, art kind and true,
patient, and ruling all things^[a] in mercy.
² For even if we sin we are thine, knowing thy power;
but we will not sin, because we know that we are accounted thine.
³ For to know thee is complete righteousness,
and to know thy power is the root of immortality.