Wisdom 14:19-21

Good News Translation

¹⁹ An artist might want to please some ruler, and so he would use his skill to make the likeness better looking than the actual person. ²⁰ Then people would be so attracted by the work of art, that the one whom they had earlier honored now became the object of their worship. ²¹ So all this became a deadly trap, because people who were grieving, or under royal authority, would take objects of stone or wood, and give them the honor reserved for the One God.