Wisdom 15:3LXX

1But thou, our God, art gracious and true, patient, and ordering all things in mercy.

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

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

4For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours,

5The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image.